by Chris Hedges Truthdig (March 08 2009) All measures to thwart the degradation and destruction of our ecosystem will be useless if we do not cut population growth. By 2050, if we continue to reproduce at the current rate, the planet will have between eight billion and ten billion people, according ...

Los ríos y lagos del país están contaminados, los glaciares de donde provienen se están fundiendo (en el Nevado de Toluca y el Pico de Orizaba) de forma acelerada debido al calentamiento global, la desertificación crece, los mantos freaticos bajan aceleradamente mientras talamos más y más bos...

Walt Disney's second full-length animated feature is a timeless, breathtakingly beautiful classic. Based on an 1800s story by Carlo Collodi, it stars Jiminy Cricket (voiced by Cliff Edwards) as a vagabond insect who spends a rainy night at the shop of toymaker Geppetto. The Blue Fairy brings a mario...

We were first introduced to Claire Watkins last fall. Our good friend Mike Alber is in the MFA program at Ohio State with Claire. He set us up on a blind date of sorts, telling Claire about Hobart, and us about how much Claire's stories rock. Fortunately for us, he was successful in getting Clai...

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series The Art of Rawking SxSW Interactive This post is part of a series, head over to the SxSW Interactive Tips page to read all of the posts in this series (in intended order). Image via Wikipedia Ever since our forefathers, the very first geeks sat up from their r...

Changeling part 2  Title: ChangelingAuthor: ceilyn Rating: UGenre: Fantasy/ Sci-fiA/N I own these characters and their settings, this is an original fiction, enjoy! please comment!      Kalain sighed as the airlock door sealed behind her. The off-white and blue color scheme of th...

Earthside Comments: It is the ultimate, underlying cause of almost all of the problems and difficulties we face ... as a species, as a culture, as a society, as a civilization. It is also the most taboo of political issues -- human overpopulation. Because a 'solution' is difficult to confront: how d...

In the basement of a nondescript building here at Argonne National Laboratory, nickel particles in a beaker are building themselves into magnetic snakes that may one day give clues about how life originally organized itself. These chains of metal particles look so much like real, living animals, it ...

Blue whales are the planet's largest creatures, yet we hardly ever see them. Their calls travel thousands of miles, but we can barely hear them. Now, National Geographic embarks on a mission to witness what nobody ever has in these waters; blue whales eating and giving birth.Click to Learn More natg...

Attempted to upgrade my kernel to 2.6.28. Nvidia drivers FAIL. Back to 2.6.26! # Skittles: Interweb the Rainbow! Marketing win. Must buy more skittles now. (Via @laughingsquid) http://skittles.com/ # Apparently it’s going to be a Jabberwocky day: woke up with the phrase ’slithy tovesR...