How often after a Big Energy disaster do we come to learn that the parties to blame were previously cited — sometimes more than once — for the same type of safety violation(s) that caused the latest incident?
Whether it’s a coal mine collapse, a ruptured pipeline, or a leaking oil well, what first appears to be an accident turns out to be an act of negligence that could have — and legally should have — been prevented.
In a segment that aired last Friday, Rachel...
Professor Hans Rosling offers an entertaining visualization of changes in life expectancy relative to income during the past 200 years. Excerpted from “The Joy of Stats,” presented by the BBC.
Over the weekend, thousands of common dolphins were spotted 9 miles off the coast of San Diego, engaged in an apparent feeding frenzy that stretched 7 miles wide and 5 miles long.
Dolphins usually travel in groups of 200 or less, but occasionally are spotted in pods of 1,000.
According to KFMB television in San Diego, experts estimated 2,000-3,000 in this “super pod,” but Capt. Joe Dutra, who piloted the tour boat that followed the dolphins for more than an hour, estimated the...
Solar scientists have long theorized that at the heart of the great solar explosions, known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs), lie twisted kinks of magnetic fields known as a flux rope. But until now, no one knew when or where they formed.
Last July, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured flux rope in the very act of formation.
The image above (click to enlarge) was processed to highlight the edges of each magnetic loop, thus making the structure more apparent. The video below...
