The thing you never knew you needed.

— the story.

Plants could soon provide our electricity. In a small way they already are doing that in research labs and greenhouses at project Plant-e — a university and commercially sponsored research group at Wageningen University in the Netherlands.

Pants to die for–and in.

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Circa 2013

Stories are equipment for living. But our equipment is obsolete. We must upgrade or go obsolete too. “ReWriting the Human Story” is my proposal to do that.

According to our scientists and our colleagues at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Earth’s 2018 global surface temperatures were the fourth warmest since 1880, with warming trends strongest in the Arctic region 🌡️. Stay on top of the trends at: https://go.nasa.gov/2SvsV27

New data predicts an “empty planet.”

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But a new book examines the data and comes to a radically different conclusion: instead of continuing to rise, the population will level out in about 30 years — and then start to decline, possibly forever.

Stand on Zanzibar

The book is called “Empty Planet,” and it was written by journalist John Ibbitson and political scientist Darrell Bricker. Their key argument: access to information is changing people’s outlook on reproduction around the world and rapidly shifting the old norms around families and fertility.

“We polled 26 countries asking women how many kids they want, and no matter where you go the answer tends to be around two,” Ibbitson said in a new interview with Wired. “The external forces that used to dictate people having bigger families are disappearing everywhere. And that’s happening fastest in developing countries.”

The device will help researchers understand the way energy transfer occurs in living systems.

Strain data shows a magnitude 5.8 quake in summer 2016 – but nobody felt it, scientists say.