With the arrival of Peak Oil, the curtain has closed on Act 1 of the drama Petroleum Man. What will happen in Act 2? Chekhov said, "If there's a gun on the wall at the beginning of the play, by the end it must go off." In the world's nuclear arsenal are many guns on the wall. If life copies art, will there be an Act 3 in which the players, having learned their lesson the hard way, live sustainably? To explore these and other questions... FTW's Act 2 Blog. Read, comment, take heart! Orkin
Saturday, August 03, 2024
From Jenna Orkin
Video from Trump assassination attempt victim's POV shows figure moving on roof moments before gunfire
Ants perform teeny tiny operations to save their injured comrades
Forest City in China - Planned
Nuclear Energy Stocks Soar as Prices Jump Ninefold on Largest US Power Grid
U.S. swimmer Katherine Douglass just won gold in breaststroke at the Paris Olympics. Read this article she co-wrote on how swimmers are using "digital twins" to improve their technique. It seems to work!
Bird flu cases in dairy workers are being undercounted, according to a new study in Texas.
The coming Lawyer Wars over the certification of this election
Plants and their pollinators are increasingly out of sync
A critical system of Atlantic Ocean currents could collapse as early as the 2030s, new research suggests
Deadly wildfires spread across Europe as tourists warned and towns evacuated
Fires have broken out in Spain, Greece, Croatia, North Macedonia and Albania
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