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I know that it’s stereotypical that wolves (and sometimes dogs) howl at the full moon. But I’ve never heard of anything about dogs and eclipses. I think I need to start taking note, because (in case you didn’t know this) last night was the last Eclipse until 2010 that could be visible in North America. [...]

If you happened to catch this week’s episode of NPR’s On The Media, you’ll find this all very familiar. In their leading piece this week, they investigated companies that have focused their advertising efforts on demonstrating their corporate responsibility to the environment. The British Oil Company, British Petroleum also known as BP, is an example [...]

I remember the days, as a kid, that I would get up early in the morning to watch Mr. Wizard perform his marvelous science tricks on Nickelodeon’s “Mr. Wizard’s World”. I loved his show. I remember watching episodes that I had seen time-and-time again, as if I was expecting his experiments to have a different [...]

If you followed the news today about our dear President, you’d likely have noticed his sudden concern for the environment. He came out today insisting that 15 nations need to start to curb their greenhouse gas emissions over the next decare or so in order to help protect the environment. In the same speech, he came [...]

If you haven’t yet read it, there’s a great piece in today’s New York Times about Global Warming. The Bush Administration finally admits that there is some truth to the claim. The latest report on Global Warming has shown unequivocal evidence of the presence of global temperatures rising as a direct result of human behavior. There’s [...]

I’ve been waiting for this technology to take off, and it’s finally starting to come around. According to a Reuters Story on CNN.com today: Beaming people in “Star Trek” fashion is still in the realms of science fiction, but physicists in Denmark have teleported information from light to matter bringing quantum communication and computing closer to [...]

Leave it to a seventh-grade science project to take all the fun out of going to a fast food restaurant. According to Jasmine Roberts, a seventh grader at Benito Middle School in New Tampa, FL — 70-percent of the time, the ice used in drinks at fast food restaurants contain more bacteria than the fast [...]