For the last few years, I’ve been helping Greenpeace build its first fully open source software project, Planet 4. Planet 4 is a global engagement platform where Greenpeace supporters and activists can interact and engage with the organization. The goal is to drive people to action on behalf of our planet. We want to invite participation and use people power to…
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Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber are CGI animals in this generation’s “We Are the World”
Source: https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/4/19/18507660/lil-dicky-earth-music-video-ariana-grande-leo-dicaprio…
Bioelectricity and Chi – Bees Can Sense the Energy Fields of Flowers to Communicate With Them
Alex Pietrowski – A new study discovers a subtle process of communication relying on electricity. Source: https://www.wakingtimes.com/2019/04/19/bioelectricity-and-chi-bees-can-sense-the-energy-fields-of-flowers-to-communicate-with-them/…
Ocean-Clogging Microplastics Also Pollute the Air, Study Finds
Microplastics are known to cause ocean pollution, but a new study suggests airborne plastic particles pollute the air and dry land as well. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/science/what-are-microplastics.html?partner=rss&emc=rss…
Planet’s Ocean-Plastics Problem Detailed In 60-Year Data Set
Scientists have uncovered the first strong evidence that the amount of plastic polluting the oceans has risen vastly in recent decades — by analyzing 60 years of log books for plankton-tracking vessels. Nature reports: Data recorded by instruments known as continuous plankton recorders (CPRs) — which ships have collectively towed millions of kilometres across the Atlantic Ocean — show that the…
Microplastics Are Blowing In the Wind
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Scientific American: Scientists have detected tiny pieces of plastic falling out of the air like artificial dust. A first-of-its-kind study finds these particles have blown in on the wind from at least 100 kilometers away and likely much farther. This is a clear indication that atmospheric transport is yet another way plastic pollution…
The race to save the planet from plastic
Scientists are trying to accelerate evolution to make plastics rot. A tiny new organism is showing them how. Sometime between 2010 and 2015, a tiny organism with an unusual appetite made a home in an industrial site near a bottle-recycling plant in Sakai, Japan. The site, located by a bustling port in one of the… Continue reading The race to save the planet from plastic
Does a year in space make you older or younger?
The NASA Twins study – featuring astronaut twins Scott and Mark Kelly – was the perfect space experiment. Scott spent a year in space aboard the International Space Station. Mark remained on Earth. The results? Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/year-in-space-human-body-twins-study…
Mystery of The Garfield Telephones Appearing in France Solved After 35 Years
In the last decade or so, popular culture seems to have caught up with what many of us have known for a long time: there’s something altogether not right about Garfield. Maybe it’s because the comic strip was created completely devoid of any substance whatsoever that looking too long at Garfield is like opening a… Continue reading Mystery of The Garfield Telephones Appearing in France Solved After 35 Years