The story of the faster-than-wind wind-driven vehicle is fascinating, not so much for the actual machine, but for the rancor the debate stirred up online. Very good read though.
Studying the place of the booty call relationshipon the spectrum of relationships seems like a perfectly reasonable area of study to me.
Getting closer to making farmed bluefin tuna a reality.
The Kepler satellite team announced that they might have discovered an earth-sized planet around a star 2,000 light years away.
What this story really says to me is that the patent process is a catastrophe on an epic scale.
And finally, if you want a sense of the impact humans have had on the planet over the years, here’s a map (or maps) for you.