"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

Albert Einstein

Subway Blasts Kill Dozens in Moscow
Female suicide bombers set off huge explosions during rush hour Monday morning in two subway stations in central Moscow, officials said, killing at least 35 people and raising fears that the Muslim insurgency in southern Russia was once again being brought to the country’s heart. The two explosions spread panic throughout the capital as people searched for missing relatives and friends, and the authorities tried to determine whether more attacks were planned. “The terrorist acts were carried out by two female terrorist bombers,” said Moscow’s mayor, Yuri M. Luzhkov. “They happened at a time when there would be the maximum number of victims.”

In surprise visit to war zone,
Obama prods Afghans
KABUL—On an Afghanistan trip shrouded in secrecy, President Barack Obama demanded accountability from the country's leaders, greater vigilance against corruption and better governing as he widens America's commitment to the 8-year-old war he inherited and then dramatically escalated. Obama said the U.S. would not quit in Afghanistan, but he made clear that he's looking for an end to direct involvement in the fight against Taliban and al-Qaida extremists. He drove that point home in meetings with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his Cabinet in the capital, and in a speech before a cheering crowd of about 2,500 troops and civilians at Bagram Air Field north of Kabul.

Climate Change Quiz

Can Climate Models Predict Global Warming's Direct Effects in Your City?
The U.S. government is launching a $50-million effort to enable supercomputer-powered climate models to deliver regional impacts
Nobody lives in the global average climate. Nor are the massive grid cells favored by climate models run on today's supercomputers as useful as they could be for planning purposes, given that they can encompass 10,000 square kilometers. Now the National Science Foundation (NSF), along with the U.S. Energy and Agriculture departments are teaming up to financially support the development of new computer models aimed at revealing the anticipated effects of climate change at the regional level.


6 Green Gadgets Your Home Needs
My husband and I used to run around the house unplugging everything—TVs, computers, cell chargers. We had no idea how much energy we were using. We didn’t know if the house was leaking warm air in the winter or cool air in the summer, or where those energy vampires were hiding. But now that the rest of America wants to save money (and the earth), companies are stepping up with new advances that can help.


Climate Change Quiz

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Emotions Key to Judging Others: New Piece to Puzzle of How Human Brain Constructs Morality from Study of Harmful Intent
A new study from MIT neuroscientists suggests that our ability to respond appropriately to intended harms -- that is, with outrage toward the perpetrator -- is seated in a brain region associated with regulating emotions.

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Can Climate Models Predict Global Warming's Direct Effects in Your City?

Can Climate Models Predict Global Warming's Direct Effects in Your City?
The U.S. government is launching a $50-million effort to enable supercomputer-powered climate models to deliver regional impacts
Nobody lives in the global average climate. Nor are the massive grid cells favored by climate models run on today's supercomputers as useful as they could be for planning purposes, given that they can encompass 10,000 square kilometers. Now the National Science Foundation (NSF), along with the U.S. Energy and Agriculture departments are teaming up to financially support the development of new computer models aimed at revealing the anticipated effects of climate change at the regional level.

Colorado Cannabis Convention Apirl 2nd and 3rd

Colorado Cannabis Convention
Apirl 2nd and 3rd

Life Without Google

Life Without Google
What does it feel like to live in China now that Google has departed? The number of times that I’ve received that query from friends in the U.S. in the past forty-eight hours has startled me. They are the short, concerned missives that I imagine one receives when a cable-news crawl mentions that a tornado has wiped out your hometown. I am getting the sense that, for more than a few people, the mental image of life without Google lies somewhere between a power outage and that apocalypse movie with Will Smith, in which he is avoiding zombies and hunting deer on overgrown Manhattan streets.

This week in crazy: Randy "Baby Killer" Neugebauer

This week in crazy:
Randy "Baby Killer" Neugebauer
His outburst over the healthcare bill was bizarre. But his explanation of it was downright nutty
Rep. Randy Neugebauer proved two things this week: He's very angry, and he doesn't really care what anyone thinks about it.
The Republican from Texas was, understandably, furious this week over the way the healthcare bill that the House passed Sunday night compels all women in the U.S. to
have abortions, at a budget-busting cost to taxpayers of $1.4 million per terminated pregnancy. What's that? The bill does nothing of the sort?