Giant Island of Trash

http://www.popsci.com/article/2007-10/giant-island-trash By Gregory Mone Posted 10.31.2007 at 3:55 pm A heap of trash that's twice the size of Texas is floating somewhere between San Francisco and Hawaii. The...

Food vs Fuel problem - solution on the way?

A british company believes that new technology based around a detritus-loving bug that is in almost every compost heap will help solve the bio-fuel versus food production problem. This would be a real breakthrough...

Gore and Nobel Win: A coup for junk science!

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorA Coup for non believers, whereby it seems everybody's crackpot theories like the GAYBOMB (Taxpayers paid for this?) can line up for a Nobel Peace Prize along with the...

Zumthor’s Cologne modern art museum is beyond time

"Peter Zumthor’s remarkable museum of modern art in Cologne meshes ancient and modern to create a timeless and evocative building. ‘The largest heap of rubble in the world,” is how the German architect...

How many grains make a heap?

"The controversy between realists, who think that the notion of truth as correspondence to reality can be saved, and pragmatists, who regard it as hopeless, seems to me much more fruitful than the question of whether ‘Water is H2O’ is a necessary truth. The debate...

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