Earth Day Laughs: 18 ‘Predictions’ of Doom

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In the May 2000 issue of Reason Magazine, award-winning science correspondent Ronald Bailey wrote an excellent article titled “Earth Day, Then and Now” to provide some historical perspective on the 30th anniversary of Earth Day. In that article, Bailey noted that around the time of the first Earth Day in the 1970, and in the years following, there was a “torrent of apocalyptic predictions” and…

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April 22, 2017 at 01:12AM

‘Gibraltar-sized’ space rock passes Earth

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A large asteroid the size of the Rock of Gibraltar has passed safely by Earth. The object, measured to be almost a kilometre wide, came within five times the distance between the Earth and the Moon. Known as 2014 JO25, the asteroid is the biggest such space rock to skim our world since 2004.

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April 22, 2017 at 12:58AM

Oceans Plastics Clean Up turning Waste into Valuable Fuel

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Billions of pounds of plastic waste are littering the world’s oceans. Now, a Ph.D. organic chemist and a sailboat captain report that they are developing a process to reuse certain plastics, transforming them from worthless trash into a valuable diesel fuel with a small mobile reactor. They envision the technology could someday be implemented globally on land and possibly placed on boats to…

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April 22, 2017 at 12:49AM

Part 3: NAS President to JunkScience — Drop dead

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After several more e-mail exchanges, NAS President Marcia McNutt has apparently returned to the view that JunkScience should drop dead. Before reading further, you should already have read Part 1 and Part 2 of “NAS President to JunkScience: Drop Dead.”

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April 22, 2017 at 12:29AM