XL Hybrids is a company out of Boston that, right there on their homepage, will promise a 20 percent reduction in urban fuel consumption. The business media is on board: Fast Company just had them as the third-most innovative energy company in… Continue Reading
By now you’ve probably heard about or seen or have some context around this new climate change report, which was fairly dire. At the same time, the percentage of Americans who care about the issue is essentially the same as… Continue Reading
Matt Teeters is a state representative in Wyoming who helped lead the charge for the state to officially reject the new Next Generation Science Standards, becoming the first state to officially do so. (It should be noted that the Governor of… Continue Reading
Depending on your particular political ideology, you may embrace or deny climate change — that’s all well and good, but the science behind it is there and rather indisputable. Now it’s a question of who benefits and who loses, which Shell (oil… Continue Reading
Everyone has heard about the Koch Brothers by this point, it seems, but less people have heard of Tom Steyer, who is the liberal election-alterer of the moment. He made his money via hedge funds in the Bay Area, and now… Continue Reading
Let’s begin by tracing the argument: for a good long time, the belief of the scientific/paleontology/anthropology community was that the first people to begin arriving in America were “the Clovis People.” They seemed to appear about 13,500 to 13,000 years ago,… Continue Reading
Yep. You could also classify this thing as eight times the size of Manhattan, or half the size of London. It’s 70,000 hectares, which is roughly 700 million square meters, or 270 square miles. Six British scientists, led by Grant… Continue Reading
I was looking around for something to write about for the initial post on this new blog concept. I thought about tackling ObamaCare, because I don’t completely understand it (despite the fact that I worked with a health care company… Continue Reading