May 23, 2018
The term “weather war” might seem appropriate only for fantastical tales or at best an exigency for the next centuries. In reality though, it’s a firmly established component of combat, not of the far future but going back into the distant past.
May 9, 2018
Humanity, we now realize, has been on Earth long enough to have seen multiple ice ages come and go, along with the interglacials between them, as well as the current span of 12,000 years of clement climate currently enjoyed.
Apr 18, 2018
Needing a breathing apparatus to navigate through smoke-filled Beijing doesn’t evoke even a remark from activists who are apoplectic about Americans barbecuing in their back yards. A good part of ecology, unfortunately, has been converted to something much closer to politics.
Apr 10, 2018
Hardly any society has ever existed in which there is no sacred proscription against murder, robbery, assault and other misdeeds, codes born in the oldest mists of antiquity.
Mar 28, 2018
A starship is also a time machine, but only into the future. Cruising at speeds just below the velocity of light, a crew returning to Earth after what seemed to them like 10 or 20 years would find that many centuries had passed, which presumably would be disconcerting.
Mar 14, 2018
The West Coast is better prepared for whatever mistreatment the San Andreas or Cascadia might dole out. For that reason alone, San Diego might shrug off the same sort of jolt that could conceivably cause quite a bit of damage in Evansville, Indiana, or Jonesboro, Arkansas.
Mar 2, 2018
One trillion people can never live on Earth. But higher numbers than at present need not automatically necessitate a more severely compromised ecology in the future. The real question is the kind of stewardship Earth’s populace administers on the planet.
Feb 21, 2018
Last December Dr. Bernard Bigot, the Director-General of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in France, declared the project 50 percent complete.