January 10, 2015 Earth Science
Why we should care about sustainability In recent decades, our society has adopted a “bigger is better” principal which has led to a mad rush of over-production and over-consumption that is slowly but surely guiding us on a downward spiral…
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January 10, 2015 Earth Science
There really are some simple ways to conserve water. Water conservation is a hot topic today, with the revolution in green technology all over the Internet and the airwaves. So how can we all do our part to conserve this precious…
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January 10, 2015 Earth Science
In its native environment and native climate, an ash tree is a species in perfect balance within its ecosystem. As one of the first trees to spring back after a forest fire, ash trees are very tolerant of the high…
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January 10, 2015 Earth Science
Free Energy The battle to give “we the people” the right to live with free energy has been going on for a long time. Earth Day began in 1970 with the desire to be more in tune with nature and…
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January 10, 2015 Earth Science
Hundreds of years ago, Easter Island, off the coast of Chili, in the Pacific, had trees. They were systematically cut down to provide tools, and fire for the islanders who never realized that eventually they would be gone entirely without…
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Of all the chemical manifestations in the universe, amino acids are without question the most incredible stuff ever to have chemically evolved. But quite amazingly, amino acids are a totally natural occurrence and just about anywhere you find liquid water,…
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January 10, 2015 Medical Science
The first thing that needs to be said is that, at this time, it is NOT currently possible to clone humans! The various science fiction movies are exactly that; amusing, thought provoking, entertaining AND not yet true! But not beyond…
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January 10, 2015 Earth Science
Lead is a metal with the symbol Pb. It is a soft, malleable metal that is bluish white, but which oxidizes to a dull gray when exposed to air. Yet lead resists further oxidation by creating an oxidation layer. When…
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January 10, 2015 Earth Science
As ash and airborne particulates continue to belch out from the volcano under Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull glacier, some health experts are turning a worried eye towards the future. The plume from the volcano has spread across the North Sea and dropped…
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Cellulose is an organic compound essential to plants. Cellulose is a non-branched polysaccharide, meaning the compound is a linear, chemically bound chain of sugar molecules, more exactly beta-glucose, and a constitutional form of glucose. The chemical sum formula is (C6…
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