Month: August 2006

Over the Moon

Sci­en­tists have known for cen­turies that the Moon isn’t round. Rather, the Moon is a flat­tened sphere—like a football—and is elon­gat­ed on the side that faces the Earth.

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Hurricane Katrina: Counting the Ecological Cost

Hur­ri­cane Kat­ri­na has had a dev­as­tat­ing impact on the envi­ron­ment of south-east Louisiana, experts report almost a year after the vio­lent storm smashed the city of New Orleans, caus­ing floods that killed near­ly 2000 people.

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“Who Killed The Electric Car?”

“Who Killed The Elec­tric Car?” asks, and hopes to answer, just that. The film is a doc­u­men­tary about the fate of the GM EV‑1 project and sim­i­lar ev projects by oth­er auto man­u­fac­tur­ers, writ­ten and direct­ed by Chris Paine. (Image cour­tesy of Wikipedia. This is con­sid­ered to be a fair use of pro­mo­tion­al mate­r­i­al.) I’ve… Con­tin­ue read­ing “Who Killed The Elec­tric Car?”

Green America: Why Environmentalism Is Hot

In the face of the com­ing onslaught of pol­lu­tants from a rapid­ly urban­iz­ing Chi­na and India, the task of avoid­ing eco­log­i­cal dis­as­ter may seem hope­less, and some envi­ron­men­tal sci­en­tists have, qui­et­ly, con­clud­ed that it is.

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Web 2.0 Confusion

Jason Kot­tke has a post about word fre­quen­cy analy­sis on Web 2.0 def­i­n­i­tions by design­ers. I was real­ly sur­prised to see that nei­ther social, inter­ac­tion, nor com­mu­ni­ty ranked up at the top. Did I com­plete­ly miss out on what Web 2.0 is all about, or was it all just the ajax fad? I don’t sup­pose… Con­tin­ue read­ing Web 2.0 Confusion

Free Josh Wolf

JOSH WOLF is an imper­fect mar­tyr for free­dom of the press. The 24-year-old free­lance jour­nal­ist from San Fran­cis­co makes no pre­tense of being fair and bal­anced. He is a self-pro­claimed anar­chist. Advo­ca­cy, not objec­tiv­i­ty, appears to be his dri­ving motivation.

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Universal Raises ‘Hellboy 2’

Uni­ver­sal Pic­tures will ful­ly finance and dis­trib­ute Hell­boy 2, the Guiller­mo del Toro-direct­ed sequel to the 2004 Dark Horse Com­ic-spawned film, Vari­ety reported.

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Bonham Carter Joins ‘Order of the Phoenix’ Cast

Hele­na Bon­ham Carter has joined the cast of the upcom­ing fifth Har­ry Pot­ter movie, The Order of the Phoenix, and will play Bel­la­trix Lestrange, Sir­ius Black­’s cousin and a Death Eater, who is one of Lord Volde­mor­t’s fol­low­ers, Warn­er Broth­ers announced.

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