Green Jobs Now Day of Action Recap

Yesterday was National Day of Action to demand a Better Economy, A Green Economy. I went to the Green Homes Renewable Energy Festival. Here is how I participated.I'm ready!Go Green! Vote Green!Visit Green for All for More information and to get involved....

A Galaxy Cluster Makes Its Mark

A Galaxy Cluster Makes Its MarkAbell 1689, shown in this composite image, is a massive cluster of galaxies located about 2.3 billion light years away that shows signs of merging activity. Hundred-million-degree gas detected by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory...

Green Jobs Now National Day of Action

Whew! This is one fabulous green-centered weekend. Today, Sept 27th is also a National Day of Action to Build a New Economy – a Green Economy. So as you and your family are enjoying this day, celebrating Take a Child Outside Week or Public Lands Day,...

Go Outside! Take A Child Outside Week & National Public Lands Day

Go outside and enjoy this weekend! It's that perfect time of year when the height of the summer heat has passed, and the autumn breeze is taking over. The weather is perfect - not too hot, not cold. Plus, it is National Take a Child Outside Week!...

International Polar Day! Celebrating the People of the Polar Regions

Today, September 24th, 2008 marks the sixth quarterly International Polar Day.This is a special day within the bigger celebration of International Polar Year (IPY)- 2007-2009. IPY is a huge, multi-national research and educational awareness effort to...

Wordless Wednesday: Summer Says Goodbye

Cone Flowers losing their petals and turning brown at an urban prairie garden at Chicago's Lurie Garden in Millenium Pa...

NPR stories about Urban Science

It is the start of autumn and along with crisp air and changing leaf colors, millions of birds are migrating south now. Along the river ways and waterways of this nation, several thousand species of birds will use these waterways, even man-made ponds...

mTOR, MAPK, and cancer

Recent studies are making it increasingly apparent that cancer is really many different diseases – hundreds actually – in the sense that there are hundreds of distinct problems at a molecular level that can result in the symptoms of cancer in a large...

Announcing 2 Important Dates in Science Awareness

September 24th is International Polar DayI posted about International Polar Year several times. 2007-2008 were designated as International Polar Years. It is a huge, multi-national research and educational awareness effort to bring attention to the importance...

Producing PRODUCE from Waste water - I told you so

Back in April there was alot stink raised about a science study that spread sewage on the lawns of Baltimore residents. That study, conducted by scientists from John Hopkins University, and funded by federal research grants, was designed to lower the...

Wordless Wednesday: Taken Down by Ike

A Black Locust Tree (Robina pseudoacacia) that was felled in the wake of the Ike Storm that blew threw the Mid-west.The tree seemed quite healthy, I suspect it fell because of the very wet soil. When soil becomes too wet and becomes the consistency...

Pets and Wildlife also hit hard by Hurricane Ike

Hurricane Ike has been devastating. Even as far away as the Midwest, we had some 'residual' damage, flooding, power outages, and deaths.But natural disasters like this storm also separate families from the their pets, not to mention the lives of many...

Urban Wildlife Watch: House Sparrows

photo credit: http://wc.pima.edu/~bfiero/tucsonecology/animals/birds_hosp.htmThe House Sparrow is perhaps the most common bird in the world. This little brown bird is everywhere – no kidding. The bird was actually brought to the United States from Europe...

Community Organizing in Action - School Supply Drive for KidSmart (St. Louis)

The new school year has begun and the public education issues in St. Louis and throughout our nation are major issues that need to be addressed. Last week, my friends and I hosted a School Supply Drive.We collected over $400 worth of much needed school...

Messier 83 - The "Thousand-Ruby Galaxy"

The Thousand-Ruby Galaxy (9/2/08)This dramatic image of the galaxy Messier 83 was captured by the Wide Field Imager at ESO's La Silla Observatory, located high in the dry desert mountains of the Chilean Atacama Desert. Messier 83 lies roughly 15 million...

Wordless Wednesday: Bunny Rabbit

On the Campus of Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Let me get very clo...

The first stars

Once upon a time when the universe was very young, before there were even galaxies that could be "far, far away", the first stars were born.The story of how this probably happened, which astrophysicists have been trying to figure out for decades, is...

Urban Wildlife Watch: Voles

Voles are also called field mice, but there are several different types of field mice; it is a catch all phrase for mice that live out in nature. Voles are most common in undisturbed or not-so-much disturbed land areas - like field, woods, overgrown...

Wordless Wednesday: Snug as a Bug

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Induced pluripotent stem cells III

There is still some news from here that we need to look at. It has to do with reducing the risk of tumorigenicity by using a signaling protein Wnt3a – a member of the Wnt family of proteins – in place of the c-Myc transcription factor for inducing pluripotency...

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