Mac Planet: Apple breakthroughs that didn’t break through to me
Apple makes great stuff, I love it (obviously) but I'm not quite the resounding fan everyone assumes I am. Some things just don't work for me. New things get introduced and I sometimes
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Apple makes great stuff, I love it (obviously) but I'm not quite the resounding fan everyone assumes I am. Some things just don't work for me. New things get introduced and I sometimes
As part of the sorely-needed aid package to help victims of Hurricane Sandy, Congress is also considering spending billions on ill-advised and environmentally damaging beach and coastal rebuilding projects that ignore the looming threats of rising seas and intensifying storms.
As the United States experiences a glut of natural gas, a host of facilities are being proposed that would convert gas to a liquid and export it.
Climate change received scant attention in the election campaign. But with public concern about global warming growing in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, President Obama has an unprecedented opportunity to take bold action on climate and clean energy.
Is higher education a giant bubble? I'd argue that it's probably not. But for-profit higher education just might be, and today we could be witnessing it pop.
On issues ranging from genetically modified crops to nuclear power, environmentalists are increasingly refusing to listen to scientific arguments that challenge standard green positions. This approach risks weakening the environmental movement and empowering climate contrarians.
These worries are as old as the Republic. American colleges and universities are not going down the tubes.
This summer has seen record heat waves and wildfires in the U.S, the worst flooding in Beijing’s modern history, and droughts that devastated the U.S. corn crop and led India to set up “refugee camps” for livestock. These extreme events were not freak occurrences – this is how the Earth works now.
Online education platform Coursera wants to drag elite education into the 21st century. And yesterday, the academy jumped on board.
A recent study noted that most of the 6,900 languages spoken on Earth occur in regions of high biodiversity. These findings point to a strong correlation between biological and linguistic diversity, with languages closely connected to the habitats where they are found.