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For Perspective: From the Space Station
Web photo courtesy of NASA via npr.com Picked this up on npr.com from a report on “the view from the Space Station.”
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Congresswoman Giffords Gets Fly-By View of Endeavour
From Florida Today this story: Today at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida: U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the wife of Endeavour commander Mark Kelly, has arrived at Kennedy Space Center to watch Monday morning’s launch, her staff has reported. “Gabrielle landed safely in Florida. Smooth flight with STS 134 astronaut…
Read More »This Is Encouraging: Renewable Energy Forecast
Renewable technologies could supply 80% of the world’s energy needs by mid-century, says the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Read what BBC reporter Richard Black says about the prospect of renewable energy by mid-century.
Read More »Smart Buses in Brazil: Curitiba Cures Traffic Ills
From TIME magazine comes an article about the advanced thinking on urban transportation in the ultra-green city of Curitiba, Brazil, which was featured at last June’s Innovative Cities Conference in Lowell. Read the article here, and get TIME if you want more. Web photo by Carlos Cazalis/Corbis courtesy of TIME.com
Read More »This Is Interesting: MIT Names New Leader of Media Lab
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has named a new leader for its famous Media Lab. Read the NY Times report about Joichi “Joi” Ito, who at 44 years old is already a legend in the worlds of technology and venture capital. Consider buying the NYTimes if you want more of this kind of reporting.…
Read More »UMass Lowell Students Win Highly Competitive EPA Grant
The Associated Press and boston.com report that a team of UMass Lowell students won one of only six national grants from the US Environmental Protection Agency for a project aimed at improving environmental quality. A team of students at the school has set a goal to develop a new class of non-halogenated flame…
Read More »For Perspective: The Milky Way, Time-Lapse Imagery
Click here to see photographer Terje Sorgjerd’s amazing views of the sky and earth from a mountain in Spain: The Mountain. I picked this up from AOL/Huffington Post.
Read More »When Cotton Was King! Eli Whitney Patents the Cotton Gin
MassMoments reminds us today that on this day – March 14, 1794 – Massachusetts native Eli Whitney applied for a patent on one of his many inventions – the cotton gin (engine). This machine was simple but it made separating the seeds from the field-grown cotton less time consuming and thus…
Read More »Darwin Day
Today we celebrate Charles Darwin’s birthday. The great biologist was born 202 years ago, meaning that it has been just over 151 years since the publication of On the Origin of Species. I have written in the past about his ideas, so to avoid repeating myself I would like to…
Read More »The carless attorney: a year end report
Last fall, local environmental attorney Matt Donahue was forced to contemplate (and live) life without a car. He wrote about his experience here and here. As 2010 drew to a close, Matt assessed his experiment and shares his observations below: Well, here is my year-end review (through December 23rd). To…
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