Image from Wikipedia Byron Wilfert, the Member of Parliament representing Richmond Hill, is sponsoring a petition "Protect the David ...

On Saturday, March 28th, 2009 at 8:30 pm local time Earth Hour arrives. But what is Earth Hour? How is it different from Earth Day? Whil...

The issue of light pollution is underexposed. But it is getting more and more serious attention. In Light Pollution — Someone Noticed! , Al...

Robert Nadeau wrote an opinion piece titled "The Economist Has No Clothes: Unscientific assumptions in economic theory are undermining ...

One hundred years ago today [1] there was a very large explosion over the lower Tunguska river in Siberia[2]. Known as the Tunguska event , ...

Critical thinking is an essential life skill. It lets us make good decisions and can protect us. People don't exercise it all the time...

Over the next 13 days (February 25th through March 8th, 2008) there is an opportunity to participate in a world wide light pollution awarene...

The facility that first confirmed the existence of black holes now faces annihilation behind a $100M event horizon at the hands of land deve...

Images courtesy of NASA APOD, click image for more info (Credit & Copyright M13: Noel Carboni , Digitized Sky Survey ) and (Credit M51:...

Earth Hour is an interesting idea cooked up by the citizens of Sydney Australia and begun on March 31st, 2007. From the Toronto Star , More...