Category Archives: Science/Technology
Atomic Scientists Set The Clock Forward
Faced with inadequate progress on nuclear weapons reduction and proliferation, and continuing inaction on climate change, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) announced today that it has moved the hands of its famous “Doomsday Clock” to five minutes to … Continue reading
Filed under Environment, Science/Technology
Questions Persist As To US Arms Treaty Compliance
By Janet Phelan Geneva, Switzerland — Questions concerning the compliance of the United States with the international treaty, the Biological Weapons Convention, came to a head recently during the Seventh Review Conference of the Convention, which is being held now … Continue reading
Filed under International, Iraq/Military, Science/Technology
The Venice Oceanarium: The Grunion Are Running
By Tim Rudnick Last month, June 3, the Venice Oceanarium presented its 16th annual grunion party. Six to seven hundred hearty Venetians made their way to the beach at 10:30pm to watch these amazing fish come out of the waves … Continue reading
Filed under Science/Technology, The Beach
“Four In the Morning” – The Video
Last month’s wonderful pre-dawn ballet of Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter was at best difficult to see for most of us city dwellers. If you would like to see a day by day simulation of the entire month of May’s celestial flash mob, … Continue reading
Filed under Roger Linnett, Science/Technology
4 O’Clock in the Morning
By Roger Linnett This month serves up a sweet little visual treat for our enjoyment; 4 of the 5 planets visible with the naked-eye will all rise together in the eastern pre-dawn sky. Plus we’re going to encounter a meteor shower, those fiery, cosmic sprinkles, … Continue reading
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Water Crisis: The Delta and Us
By DeDe Audet Living, working, and playing here in Venice gives us environmentalists more in common with the California Delta than it is comfortable to think about. I am no exception. It gives me great pleasure to respond to criticism … Continue reading
Filed under Environment, Science/Technology
Henrietta Leavitt – Surveyor to the Stars
By Roger Linnett Henrietta Swan Leavitt’s contribution to astronomy is acknowledged as one of the most significant of the 20th century, but, as is typical of women in science in this country, her name elicits only blank stares and shrugged … Continue reading
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