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Uncategorized, Mar 4th, 2011,
Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? describes a darkened, post apocalyptic future where the majority of mankind has left Earth to settle colonies on other planets. Animals are either endangered or extinct, giving way to a burgeoning industry in artificial life. Both android animals and humans have become so life-like that it is next to impossible to differentiate them from the natural life forms they mimic. For a novel written as early as 1968, Dick seems to have envisioned, with much social commentary and metaphor, many developments that resemble what has already come to…
Tags: Blade Runner, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, environmental, film, Harrison Ford, new, Philip K. Dick, Ridley Scott
Green living, Politics, Sep 13th, 2010,
Last week the European Parliament voted to enforce stricter limits on animal testing, including an outright ban of testing on great apes. The new rules, which will still allow some animal testing for medical research, were described as the strictest in the world by EU Environment Commissioner Janez Potocnik. Animal welfare officials in EU countries will be required to insure that minimum pain is experienced by the test animals during those experiments still allowed under the new regulations. Testing on other primates will still be permitted in certain cases applying to Alzheimer’s, cancer and Parkinson’s. From an AFP report: Some…
Tags: animal, EU, Europe, laws, new, parliament, rules, testing
Green living, Politics, Aug 18th, 2010,
Despite growing environmental awareness and energy efficiency measures, the developed world consumes more than ever. At the same time people in China and much of the developing world are adopting more energy intensive lifestyles. So more cars and meat consumption in China, etc., combined a growing obsession for the latest consumable goods – like phones, cars and computers – in rich nations, means the world will enter into ecological debt one month earlier this year. According to the New Economics Foundation (NEF) ‘Earth Overshoot Day’ will fall on August 21st compared to September 23rd last year. From an article on…
Tags: China, consumption, Day, debt, Earth, ecological, economics, energy, foundation, NEF, new, Overshoot
Nature, Science & Technology, Weird Stuff, Jun 30th, 2010,
Scientists at the Royal Society – the UK’s national academy of science – have determined that the continent of Africa is literally splitting in two. According to Geologists, in 2005 a rift opened up in the Afar region of Ethiopia as a result of underground eruptions, which will eventually cause the horn of Africa to drift away and a new ocean to form. From a BBC News report: The sea will flood in and will start to create this new ocean. It will pull apart, sink down deeper and deeper and eventually… parts of southern Ethiopia, Somalia will drift off,…
Tags: Afar, Africa, Ethiopia, new, ocean, rift
Climate Change, Politics, Jun 11th, 2010,
A new estimate has been made regarding the oil that has been leaking from the damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico: 20,000 to 40,000 barrels per day, or 840,000-1.7 million gallons (3.2-6.4 million liters). This estimate comes from the head of the US Geological Survey and is around twice as much oil as was previously gauged to have been escaping from the well. Scientists used new high definition footage provided by BP after demands from the US Congress, according to a CNN report. BP has been capturing some 16,000 barrels per day since a cap was installed last week,…
Tags: 40000, Barrels, BP, estimate, Exxon Valdez, Gulf, leak, leaking, Mexico, new, Obama, oil, spill
Nature, Wildlife & Flora, Apr 7th, 2010,
Previously unknown to the scientific community, a ‘new’ species of monitor lizard has been documented in the Royal Society Biology Letters. Dubbed the Varanus bitatawa, the giant lizard lives in the Sierra Madre forests of Luzon Island in the Northern Philippines, where it is well known to local tribes who hunt it for its meat. It is not often these days for biologists to find new species of large animals, or mega-fauna. But could the deforestation of Luzon, a once heavily forested island, have opened up the shy tree-dwelling monitor to exposure? According to a BBC News report, many biologists…
Tags: forest, forests, lizard, Luzon, monitor, new, northern, Philippines, Sierra Madre, species, Varanus bitatawa
