Fabric of Reality: Beyond the realms of imaginationFriday, June 11, 2010 @ 7:08AMThere are moments in The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch (Penguin, 1998) when Tim Radford felt perilously out of his depth. But the adventure was exhilarating From Friday 16 July, the club will be discussing Naturalist by EO Wilson (Island Press, 2006) All good books test the imagination. When you open them you must imagine for yourself Raymond Chandler's rainy Los Angeles in the 1930s, or ...
Beyond imaginationFriday, June 11, 2010 @ 7:08AMThere were moments in The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch (Penguin, 1998) when Tim Radford felt perilously out of his depth. But the adventure was exhilarating From Friday 16 July, the club will be discussing Naturalist by EO Wilson (Island Press, 2006) All good books test the imagination. When you open them you must imagine for yourself Raymond Chandler's rainy Los Angeles in the 1930s, or ...
Indian tribes block offshore wind farmMonday, March 29, 2010 @ 11:38AMOAK BLUFFS, Mass. — The Wampanoag Indians of southeast Massachusetts welcomed the Pilgrims when they arrived on the Mayflower nearly 400 years ago. But now they're trying to stop another newcomer — wind turbines.
Massachusetts tribes aim to take the wind out of a wind farmThursday, March 25, 2010 @ 6:50PMWampanoag Indians, citing cultural grounds, mount a spirited fight against America's first planned offshore wind turbine development. The Wampanoag Indians of southeastern Massachusetts welcomed the Pilgrims when they arrived on the Mayflower nearly 400 years ago. But now they're trying to stop another newcomer -- wind turbines.
Big BangFriday, March 12, 2010 @ 12:26PMThe struggle of keeping a car going on coffee beans
Last launch to ailing Hubble expected todayMonday, May 11, 2009 @ 12:15AMAfter 19 years of service, during which it has provided the most eye-popping images ever of galaxies, nebulae and, most recently, of a planet orbiting an alien star, the Hubble Space Telescope is suffering the pains of old age.