Author: Daniela

  • World’s on planet earth we are just beginning to discover

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    Joseph Russell / University of Delaware By Douglas Main LiveScience Beneath the seafloor lives a vast and diverse array of microbes, chomping on carbon that constantly rains down from above and is continually buried by a never-ending downpour of debris — some whale dung here, some dead plankton there. For the first time, a study…

  • Open for discussion: Graham Hancock and Rupert Sheldrake from TEDxWhitechapel

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    To view the video and the discussion, click on read more.  I left this up because I believe what Rupert Sheldrake and Graham Hancock have to say is so important!

  • Monsanto Wins Again

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    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a previous ruling that found organic growers had no reason to try to block Monsanto from suing them as the company had pledged it would not take them to court if biotech crops accidentally mix in with organics. Organic farmers and others have worried for…

  • Opportunity finds hint of life on Mars

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    CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida – Reuters A Martian rock analyzed by NASA’s rover Opportunity contains clays formed in non-acidic water, an environment potentially suitable for the chemistry of ancient life to brew. The solar-powered Opportunity landed on Mars in January 2004 for what was expected to be a 90-day mission to look for signs there was…

  • A Poetry of Names

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    Andrew Leonard’s June 10th column, in Salon, pays tribute to Ian M. Banks, the popular science fiction author who died of cancer on Sunday.  Leonard takes, “a plunge into the poetry of Ian M. Banks’ Culture spaceships” by listing the names of “the awesome, meddlesome, cantankerous and benevolent spaceships” that populate Banks’ novels: Prosthetic Conscience…

  • Photo of the day

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    Here’s a truly gorgeous image by astrophotographer Mick Hyde, a mosaic of NGC 7000 (the North American nebula) and the Pelican nebula (IC 5070).  Read more here.

  • TransCanda Whistleblower Warns of Shoddy Practices

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    Former TransCanada Corp. employee Evan Vokes’ impassioned testimony before a Canadian Senate committee last week painted “a very, very bleak picture of the pipeline industry in Canada, and probably by extension, the States,” according to Sen. Betty Unger. Vokes’ allegations on Thursday against TransCanada, the Canadian company leading the controversial proposal to send tar sands…

  • Window in the sky

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    Originally posted on pica cordoba: and yet another….

  • Beth Greer Interview with Vandana Shiva

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    Another great interview with Vandana Shiva – errant cell phone ringing, dog barking, birds chirping LOUDLY, bad sound and all!!

  • Monday Prayer

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    There Are Poems There are poems that are never written, that simply move across the mind like skywriting on a still day; slowly the first word drifts west, the last letters dissolve on the tongue, and what is left is the pure blue of insight, without cloud or comfort.  —  Linda Pastan,  (via sina-santi2)