Earth Hour

Posted in Science at 6:26 pm by David Bradley -- 17 Comments; add yours  

The logo for Earth HourIs Earth Hour a great way to raise global awareness of how much energy we are wasting and the possible consequences or our actions? Or, is it simply a cop out so that we can all feel we did "our bit" for the environment without expending any real effort?

With just hours to go for us Brits before we have to switch …

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Biodiesel and Political Crop

Posted in Science at 1:00 pm by David Bradley -- 8 Comments; add yours  

Biodiesel car

Biofuels seem to be reaching the headlines on an almost daily basis, with some activist groups touting their benefits as part of a planet-saving strategy for fossil fuel alternatives. Other groups, of course, point out that you don’t get something for nothing and that ravaging ecosystems in order to plant crops for conversion does not provide as straightforward an answer as some people would …

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Hot Milk and Global Warming

Posted in Science at 4:00 pm by David Bradley -- 1 Comment  

Cow's milk - How fresh do you want it?

The most ludicrous media storm blew up in the UK this week over alleged plans that the government was supposedly to force us to use ultra heat treated, so-called long-life, milk in our tea and on our breakfast cereal rather than the nice fresh pasteurised product we have been used to for decades. Wayne Smallman on the blah blah! technology news site

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Circular Arguments and a Complex World

Posted in Science at 10:00 am by David Bradley -- 12 Comments; add yours  

Mika Aaltonen

Mika Aaltonen of the BIT Research Centre at the Helsinki University of Technology in Finland argues that at the very fundamental level, human beings are storytelling animals, this premise may seem obvious but arises not because we like fairytales and fables but because of the way we perceive cause and effect. By learning from this revelation it might be possible to understand life stories, consciousness, biological systems, climate economic …

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