Bill Gates sat down for his seventh Reddit AMA session on Monday, February 26, dispensing some interesting perspectives. Asked about the biggest threat to humanity during the AMA, short for Ask Me Anything, the billionaire Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist offered the following. There are some things that aren’t likely but we should worry about – […]
Watch: Nova’s Rise of the Superstorms
Harvey, Irma and Maria are names many in the U.S. and the Caribbean won’t soon forget. In the span of a month beginning in August 2017, those hurricanes were responsible for thousands of lives lost, according to some estimates, not to mention the hundreds of billions of dollars in damage. They upended lives in Houston, Texas […]
Today’s 10: 2015 ‘shattered’ global temperature record
Let’s dust this thing off… NASA and other climate scientists agree: 2015 was a scorcher. Sustainable electronics are gathering momentum; self-healing batteries may one day help EV owners brave the winter better; and GE’s move into Boston could mean good things for the area’s cleantech sector (yes, there is one). Plus, a leak in the Nest […]
Must watch: Cosmos – Global warming case closed
Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey — which follows in the footsteps of Sagan’s 1980 masterpiece — closed the book on the so-called “debate” on global warming. Point by point, he shot down each of the counterarguments for reducing carbon emissions… using SCIENCE! (Sorry for the all-caps.) Sunday’s episode, “The World Set Free” tackles climate […]
Microsoft and Pixel Lab spotlight Everest’s vanishing glaciers
Microsoft Research and the company’s IE team joined Pixel Lab, filmmaker David Breashears and his GlacierWorks foundation on the HTML5-powered, touch-enabled site Everest: Rivers of Ice. While obviously optimized for Internet Explorer 10 and Windows 8/RT tablets like Microsoft’s Surface, the site appears to work well enough on other browsers (I tried it with Chrome). And it’s worth […]
Tom Friedman: Future Generations in the Hands of 'Autistic' Markets & Mother Nature
Another great Charlie Rose interview. Last night, Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of “Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0” shared some thoughts about how political, financial and societal forces are inhibiting America’s ability to…
