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How to Live Longer

We've done a story today for World News that I must say I found fascinating and encouraging: where in the world do people live the longest? And why? It's become a cause to a fellow named Dan Buettner, who has...

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January 18, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (7)

Elephants and Tigers, Endangered for Coffee

So you go to the local diner and have a cup of coffee. You order decaf. Milk and sugar on the side. Where it comes from is not at the top of your agenda. But the World Wildlife Fund, in...

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January 16, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (16)

Look! Up in the Sky!

Only about once in a decade do you really get to see a comet. This decade's spectacle is Comet McNaught, discovered last July by an Australian astronomer, Robert McNaught. We've posted STORIES over the last few days as it came...

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January 15, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (2)

The World's Greatest Collection of Gadgets

This is a day when thousands of techies are flying home from Las Vegas, coming back from the bacchanal of the Consumer Electronics Show. As my friend Jonathan Silverstein wrote, "What happens in Vegas, stays in...Well, you know." I'm not...

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January 12, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (2)

Inside the Womb

My children are more important to me than breathing. And I treasure those moments when I first got to see them...months before they were born. In our case, ultrasounds allowed one to see a grainy, black-and-white image of a wriggling...

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January 11, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (1)

Apple Takes Over the World

If you haven't overdosed on the iPhone, the BlackbeardSEO blog raises a terrific thought: "the iPhone is huge problem for the ringtone industry. In many ways it makes the ringtone industry completely obsolete. It’s an iPod so any song that...

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January 10, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (7)

Warmer

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has just put out the following press release: NOAA REPORTS 2006 WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD FOR U.S. General Warming Trend, El Niño Contribute to Milder Winter Temps "The 2006 average annual temperature for the...

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January 9, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (11)

Signs of Life

Might there be a way around that titanic debate over where to get stem cells? Anthony Atala of Wake Forest University, a veteran of the stem-cell research wars, heads a team that reports they've isolated stem cells from the amniotic...

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January 7, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (5)

Jeff Bezos has Conquered the World. What Worlds are Left?

Blue Origin, the space effort launched by Amazon.com's founder Jeff Bezos, has been shrouded in secrecy. About all it would ever confirm in the past was that it existed, and that it was looking for talented engineers. Its objective, like...

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January 4, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (3)

ExxonMobil 'Disinformation' on Climate? The Company Responds

Did ExxonMobil follow the lead of tobacco companies, funding front groups to "cloud the scientific understanding of climate change"? That was the charge from the Union of Concerned Scientists (see below). A little while ago, ExxonMobil emailed us a statement...

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January 3, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (3)