How refreshing. Here at the World Economic Forum's annual summer meeting in China, I found the audience of business honchos listening attentively to a science presentation that raised some hot ethical issues about the future of the human race.
For example, should scientific breakthroughs make it possible to create a super human race-- who should decide whether to go for it, or to pull the plug on the project (more on that in a later post)?
This annual meeting is put on by the group that holds the high profile get-togethers ...

If Steve Jobs is ahead of the curve, which he always seems to be, than the new iPod nano is great news for not only Science Friday but for all radio programs. The nano comes complete with an FM radio! Yes a radio!
It means that I'm not the only one who sees a bright future for radio. It's comforting to see the Guru of Cupertino apparently being of the same mind.
Public Radio's audience is growing. (Our SciFri (and Talk of the Nation) radio audience has been expanding at ...

As Ford, GM and Toyota work to bring you the world's first, mass produced first plug-in electric car, China has beaten them to it.
As shown in this BBC TV report, a Chinese company is mass marketing a car that runs mainly on batteries, created by a company that makes batteries for cell phones. While it has a tiny gasoline engine as backup the car's batteries do 80% of the work. You just plug it in overnight and drive it away the next morning - 60 miles on ...

Kito may not care much about the environment, but he sure appreciates the cleaning power of bleach…too bad that has nothing to do with what Bebbo's talking about.
Report after report tells us that coral reefs are in trouble. Not just from global warming, mind you, but the bleaching coral experiences as a result of water warmed by climate change is doing plenty of damage. Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest living organism, could become "functionally extinct" in decades, according to a report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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Eileen Jang, US winner of the Stockholm Junior Water Prize, a premiere environmental science award, sponsored by ITT Corporation, answers questions about the dangers of having mercury around us in our environment and how we can help to raise awareness about it.

Interviewed by: Rosalee Washington, Betty Diop, Ann Marie Cunningham
Edited by: Aloisia Staffa and Austen Saltz
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Please take a look at our latest blogger, Neil Wagner, who is writing a unique, environmental comic strip blog called "What On Earth?".
Your comments are invited and welcome....
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