Tag: Earth
not Earth’s obituary…but ours
A CNN piece posing the question “Will we write Earth’s next chapter or its obituary?” was released just days before the start of the recent Paris Climate Summit and contributed to the recent media frenzy surrounding climate change. It took the Summit to bring the topic front and center as ‘the news of the day’, which…
Read Moredisplacement…where will we go?
Amidst the typical news shenanigans as of late, out crept a nice CNN piece on population displacement due to impending climate change: https://www.cnn.com/2015/11/09/world/climate-change-create-poor-homeless/index.html. These are the types of issues that keep me up at night, and hopefully are keeping others up at night too. It’s very easy to get wrapped up in the propaganda of climate…
Read MoreThe Mass Extinction and Our Road to Nowhere
An interesting recent editorial on CNN discussed the concept that we at the onset of a new mass extinction period here on Earth. It is certainly hard to ignore that we are losing the more exotic species such as the Amazon dolphin, black rhinos, and so on, as those animals quickly become the subject matter of…
Read Morethe best of both worlds
Gotta love it – the plan to dive the methane seas of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon – in 2040 nonetheless. That’s right around the corner in space exploration years! Despite being in a bit of a science funding slump in recent years, it seems sights are being set on some very bold horizons; manned missions…
Read MoreCNN the Sixties | the Space Race
While I’m not much of a television buff, I’ve been taken by CNN’s ‘The Sixties’, particularly the recent release of Episode 7: the Space Race. Two elements were particularly captivating: 1. The real ‘race’ in the effort with Russia, and the sense of American pride that was attached to various space program propaganda to drive…
Read Morethe consumer machine, mass conformity, and a new lfie in the sea
My weekend started with a task not too foreign to me in recent years – filling a 10 yard dumpster outside of my middle-class suburban home as we get the ball rolling with a basement renovation project. I asked myself, yet again, “where does all the garbage go?” Now, I certainly do not pretend to have…
Read Morewhere will we humans play next – Mars?
A recent CNN piece discussed the future of NASA, with a particular focus on the ‘spark’ that has been long since lost in the program. As it is argued, the early excitement in NASA came from human venturing to a new frontier for the first time – we were leaving this planet and looking to…
Read Morewhen the population goes boom, I’m going splash
Time.com offered an interesting read recently about what the world will look like in 2050. Sounds like a ways off, but its not when we consider what needs to happen to accommodate the boom that we’re talking about. Today, Planet Earth is home to just shy of 7 billion of us. That’s 7 billion mouths…
Read MoreEffects of the Anthropocene | Indicator Species
A recent CNN news piece reported on baby dolphin deaths in the Gulf of Mexico. The report went on to discuss that these deaths were not the norm in considering the shear numbers, and the time of year – that is very early in the birthing season, indicating that some births may be premature. The report…
Read Morerandom chance vs determinism | Knowing, Part 1
This post is a continuation of the analysis of my marathon movie weekend. As I escaped the creepiness, yet remained perplexed by The Fourth Kind, I found myself more deeply enveloped by ‘Knowing‘. The film followed my alien themed movie marathon, but more subtly, and emphasized a focus on our perceptions of reality. In the early part of…
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