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Jonathan Franzen, Climate Change and the Need for Imagination

Glenn McLaren
Science, Science & Medicine
  Dr. Glenn McLaren   Where climate change is concerned, human imagination is a double-edged-sword. The seemingly controllable technological industrial utopia we imagined and built, has...

UC Berkeley’s David A. Patterson Sees the Future After Moore’s Law

Hippo Reads Staff
Science, Science & Medicine, Technology
As professor emeritus of the University of California, Berkeley, David A. Patterson has led a distinguished academic career since joining the faculty in 1977. Patterson developed RISC I, a microprocessor...

Some Renewable Energy Types Promise a Bright Future. Others are Merely Sci-Fi Fantasy

Kevin Gardner
Science & Medicine, Society & Culture
Global warming is pressuring the world to cut back on fossil fuels. Even if it weren't, we have largely run out of the most easily accessible, cheapest sources of fossil fuels. This means that fossil fuels...

How To Teach Science at School? Less Expert Talk, According To The Expert Darwin

Rayyan Dabbous
Science & Medicine
When the news came in America that Finnish schools promoted free play over homework, education seemed under attack. How would climbing trees and playing tag be more pedagogical than being sent home to read a...

Will China’s moon landing launch a new space race?

Wendy Whitman Cobb, The Conversation
Science & Medicine
China became the third country to land a probe on the Moon on Jan. 2. But, more importantly, it became the first to do so on the far side of the moon, often called the dark side. The ability to land on the far...

Colonizing Mars Means Contaminating Mars – And Never Knowing For Sure If It Had Its Own Native Life

David Weintraub, The Conversation
Science & Medicine
The closest place in the universe where extraterrestrial life might exist is Mars, and human beings are poised to attempt to colonize this planetary neighbor within the next decade. Before that happens, we...

The Surprising Way Plastics Could Actually Help Fight Climate Change

Joseph Rollin, The Conversation and Jenna E. Gallegos, The Conversation
Science & Medicine
What do your car, phone, soda bottle and shoes have in common? They’re all largely made from petroleum. This nonrenewable resource gets processed into a versatile set of chemicals called polymers – or more...
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