WE ARE THE 4%
Spoiler alert: this article is not about the Occupy Wall Street protests. This is about something far more awe-inspiring, in my opinion: exploding stars, dark energy, cosmic expansion, and the...
View ArticleNest: the iPod of Thermostats
Cool, sexy, and fun are words seldom associated with a home thermostat. Typically it’s turn the dial to the temp you want and forget it. Nest Labs, inventors of the Nest Learning Thermostat have, quite...
View ArticleJapanese battery turns paper into power
A new battery prototype has emerged in Japan that turns waste material into electricity. Sony’s battery is paper-powered and still in the early stages of development, but it may be a new way to charge...
View ArticleBrainwood Nuclear Plant Powered for Emergencies
by Kelly Gustafson/Medill News Service It’s a modern-day fortress. Buried behind multiple security checkpoints, fingerprint scans, layers of razor-sharp barbed wire fencing, concrete K rails and...
View ArticleMan, That’s a Tiny House
I recently had a chance to tour Northwestern’s Tiny House project – a student-run initiative designed to raise awareness about living sustainably and with minimal carbon footprint. It is a *very*...
View ArticlePredicting Climate Conditions
This summer I’m working at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) in Princeton, which is one of the country’s main facilities engaged in climate change research. Scientists at GFDL don’t go...
View ArticleClimate Change: Better Communication is Key
Climate change is arguably one of the most significant and potentially destructive problems that humans have ever faced. It’s insidious, because the damage it causes is spread over time scales that...
View ArticleWe’re Having a Heat Wave…And It’s Serious
The effects of climate change are often portrayed as a future threat, something that will one day bare its ugly (and warm) face and inflict catastrophic damage on our society. This is largely untrue...
View ArticleHurricane Sandy: The Frankenstorm
Unless your house was destroyed, Hurricane Sandy has probably more or less faded from memory. However, Sandy proved to be a major win for the meteorological community. Up to seven days before...
View ArticleWinter Is Coming…Or Is It?
Growing up in Massachusetts, I remember winter producing the epic snowstorms you might encounter beyond the wall in George R.R. Martin’s “Games of Thrones.” My sisters and I would spend hours building...
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