I'm at the Aspen Environmental Forums, an annual conference focused on many different aspects of climate science, energy policy, conservation, and other environmental issues. You can follow along on Twitter with the tag #aef2012, and I'll be tweeting regularly from the panels I watch. For instance, if you check out the tag now, you can find some great tweets from last night, covering a discussion with Stewart Brand about biotech, cloning, and the possibility of reversing extinction.
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8:10 am Sat
Jun 23, 2012
Learn about climate, energy, and "the new normal" this weekend
"Old gas blob from Uranus found in vintage Voyager 2 data"
Yes, that is actually Space.com’s brilliant headline on this story about a new discovery from data collected in 1986 by NASA’s intrepid spacecraft. When the probe neared Uranus (heh heh), it measured the planet’s surrounding magnetic field. Recently, NASA scientists Gina DiBraccio and Daniel Gershman analyzing Voyager’s old data found a “wobble” in Uranus’s magnetosphere […]
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It's fun to watch tardigrades squirm around on Twitch, adorably
Watch Quick test! from atinyworld on www.twitch.tv What the world needs now are tardigrades, sweet tardigrades. ‘A tiny world’ is a fun little internet window into the microscope with Julie Laurin, who lives in Ottowa, Ontario.
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Scientists: Drug hippos are... good?
Cocaine, as they say, is one hell of a drug. In fact, it was recently shown in a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science to have greatly helped the re-wilding a good chunk of Columbia. How you might ask? Pablo Escobar’s hippos, which are still hanging around breeding in Columbia […]
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Canva Pro can be the ultimate design tool for all us non-designers
Companies that don’t have their own in-house design teams (which means 99 percent of all companies these days) face lots of serious questions. Among those questions is how you keep up with all the design requirements of a 21st-century company without the personnel. It isn’t just a website or an annual product catalog anymore. It’s […]
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Upgrade your PC with this sale on refurbished computers from Microsoft, HP, Dell, and more
In case you’re one of those computer shoppers who instinctively turns up their nose at the very mention of the word refurbished, here are a couple myths worth dispelling. Refurbished equals junk somebody didn’t want. While desktops, laptops, notebooks, Chromebooks and tablets marked as refurbished may have been unboxed at some point, meaning they can […]
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Rad Power Bikes want to get the world out of their cars and they just may have figured out how to do it
Electric bikes aren’t toys. And they aren’t a fad. In fact, more and more communities are starting to catch on that e-bikes are a lot more than an amusing gadget for the tech geek. Following a six-month study, Johnson County, Kansas, home to many Kansas City suburbs, became just the latest U.S. community to allow […]
