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Save The Trees

So you go to your mailbox and open it, and what do you find? Bills? Too many. Catalogs? Won't be able to afford anything in them after I pay the bills. Supermarket circulars? Plenty. Garish envelopes stamped, "Important Information --...

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March 12, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (22)

One-Way Trip to Mars

For now, NASA openly says the prospect of sending astronauts to Mars is out of the question -- too complicated and expensive. But a retired NASA engineer named James C. McLane III says a Mars mission is doable, and would...

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March 6, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (183)

The Question Box

If you live in parts of rural India, or sub-Saharan Africa, or too many other places on this planet, you'll know a kind of poverty that we in the comfort of America find hard to picture. Internet access is out...

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March 5, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (6)

'Cold War Thinking'? Or a Threat from China?

The Defense Department has put out a report worrying about China and its growing military abilities. The report -- something it's been mandated to do annually since 2000 -- says that the Chinese are developing new ICBMs, cruise and ballistic...

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March 4, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (13)

Where the Wolves and the Antelope Play

Removing federal protection for gray wolves in the Rockies would be bad for the wolves...which would be good for coyotes...which would be bad for pronghorn antelope. That's the thrust of a paper, about to be published in the journal Ecology,...

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March 3, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (10)