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Enough garbage to hide a jumbo jet.

7 April 2014 grant 0

That, National Geographic has come out and said, is the sorry state of our oceans, as the ongoing search for Malaysian Airlines 370 has tragically demonstrated:

“This is the first

… Read the rest “Enough garbage to hide a jumbo jet.”

Buildings kill just about one billion birds a year.

13 February 2014 grant 0

Ecowatch reveals how our cities act as killing machines, with a new study that’s determined that buildings kill nearly one billion birds every year:

In the most comprehensive study

… Read the rest “Buildings kill just about one billion birds a year.”

Zombie sex-change pollution

14 October 2013 grant 0

I’m pretty sure Nature is blazing a new B-movie trail with this report on hormone-disrupting chemicals “rising from the dead”:

Environmental scientists have discovered

… Read the rest “Zombie sex-change pollution”

Utopia or catastrophe: How long do civilizations live? (And how can we find another?)

11 October 2013 grant 0

Those questions were raised in, of all publications, Astrobiology Magazine. Why are astrobiologists so concerned about human culture? Because if civilizations can really die out, that… Read the rest “Utopia or catastrophe: How long do civilizations live? (And how can we find another?)”

M&M waste gives bees honey of different colors.

9 October 2012 grant 0

French beekeepers, Russia Today tells us, were mystified when their hives started producing rainbow-colored honey – but were even more concerned when they found out the not-so-sweet… Read the rest “M&M waste gives bees honey of different colors.”

The reefs are collapsing.

10 September 2012 grant 0

Guardian takes a look underwater, and what it sees (and, more importantly, what scientists are seeing) really doesn’t look good:

The decline of the reefs has been rapid: in the 1970s,

… Read the rest “The reefs are collapsing.”

More wolves, more trees.

5 January 2012 grant 0

File this Washington Post story under “unintended consequences,” maybe. Researchers in Yellowstone Park are noting that as wolf populations are rebounding, the number… Read the rest “More wolves, more trees.”

Test-tube steak will save Earth.

22 June 2011 grant b 0

PhysOrg hops on the in-vitro meat bandwagon with a study that concludes lab-grown meat will lower greenhouse gas emissions by 96 percent:

The analysis, carried out by scientists from Oxford

… Read the rest “Test-tube steak will save Earth.”

Fertile Antarctica

10 June 2011 grant b 0

I know I already kinda wrote a song about this (and isopods), but still – the Mother Nature Network has joined the voices marveling over the fact that the closer we look at Antarctica,… Read the rest “Fertile Antarctica”

Mangroves save us. (If we save them.)

6 April 2011 grant b 0

Nature reports on a hidden side of wetlands conservation, with the discovery that those snorkel-rooted mangrove trees – which are getting pretty scarce most places – are … Read the rest “Mangroves save us. (If we save them.)”

Mass Extinction #6

4 March 2011 grant b 0

The death of the dinosaurs was just a drop in the bucket compared to some of the real mass extinction events out there. And PhysOrg thinks we may be at the beginning of a really big one:

“The

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Frogs might make it after all.

15 December 2010 grant b 0

New Scientist offers hope that our amphibian friends might not all die horribly after all:

“It’s happening across a number of species,” says Michael Mahony at the University

… Read the rest “Frogs might make it after all.”

Lakes of Fire

3 December 2010 grant b 0

The world’s lakes are coming to a boil, reports National Geographic. Only a minute difference in global climate is already causing some major changes in big bodies of water:

In the

… Read the rest “Lakes of Fire”

Anti-climate-change-denier bots.

4 November 2010 grant b 0

I suppose it’d be shorter to call ’em debate-bots, but Popular Science has the skinny on a new breed of online entity programmed to tirelessly refute the same tired claims: … Read the rest “Anti-climate-change-denier bots.”

SONG: Run Straight Down (penitential Warren Zevon cover)

12 October 2010 grant b 0

SONG: “Run Straight Down” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant. Originally by Warren Zevon.

SOURCE: This is a penitential cover.… Read the rest “SONG: Run Straight Down (penitential Warren Zevon cover)”

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Honorary Troubadours
  • Jonathan Coulton, Contributing Troubadour for Popular Science.
  • Laura Veirs, who knows her way around a polysyllable.
  • Thomas Dolby, godfather of scientific pop.
  • Squeaky, fact-based rock about fusion containment & rocket science.
  • Cosmos II, a.k.a. Boston University astronomer Alan Marscher.
  • Dr. Fiorella Terenzi, astrophysicist who makes music from cosmic radio sources.
  • Dr. Jim Webb, astronomy professor and acoustic guitarist.
  • Artichoke, the band behind 26 Scientists, Vols. I and II.
  • They Might Be Giants, unrelenting proponents of scientific popular song.
  • Symphonies of Science, the people who make Carl Sagan and others sing.
  • Giant Squid, doom metal about the sublime horrors of marine biology.
  • Gethan Dick,6 scientists, 6 musicians, 1 great album
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— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, 1851

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