Tag Archives: oceans

Peter Ward Can’t Sleep at Night

Posted on March 30, 2014 by Santi Tafarella

The short reason: __________ The longer explanation (at YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPRUggIb-NI __________ In Ward’s view, the two most urgent problems surrounding human caused climate change are the following: Mass extinction. When the poles heat up (as has happened in other periods … Continue reading →

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Carpe Diem: NASA Tracking Ocean Currents

Posted on March 31, 2012 by Santi Tafarella

Trippy. And not just trippy, but a reminder of the flux in which each of us tries to maintain a stable, prolonged, and individual identity. Good luck with that.

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Ocean Fail vs. Space Fail: Is America the New China (Circa 1492)?

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Santi Tafarella

Speculating about counterfactuals is always dicey, but historians have long noted that, over the past 600 years, the course of human events might well have played out starkly different if China, in the 1400s, had not been so isolationist and uninterested in ocean … Continue reading →

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Whale Evolution 101 with Richard Dawkins

Posted on August 13, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

The Richard Dawkins Foundation (RDF) has started producing some really high quality, excellent videos and posting them to YouTube. Here’s Richard Dawkins briefly introducing the basics of whale evolution:

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A Water World Like Earth’s?

Posted on April 23, 2009 by Santi Tafarella

Scientists have found one. So reports Ian Musgrave at Panda’s Thumb. The planet orbits a star in the Gliese 581 system: “Importantly, the orbit for Gliese 581d has been refined too. It is now definitely within the habitable zone of … Continue reading →

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