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Hateful Kitties, Space Lasers, Spider-Man, and Soundbars: Best Gizmodo Posts of the Week

And pretty soon the Air Force is gonna have to figure out what to do about Elon Musk smoking weed. It’s a ... what that means for our future. It’s a seemingly unlikely avenue for climate ... read more

Bernie's Bad Ideas

Rather, it is to point out, amid the distracting hullabaloo of a historically weird presidential campaign, that Bernie Sanders has at least 10 awful policy ideas that would materially ... you may end ... read more

Polaris Infrastructure: Don't Get Crushed By This Falling Knife

However, it operates a sole asset out of Nicaragua - and things are going from bad to worse ... t afford to pay for. Again, bulls have a solid point here - Polaris' project delivers cheaper kilowatts ... read more

Thorium Power Is the Safer Future of Nuclear Energy

Nuclear fission using thorium is easily within our reach, and, compared with conventional nuclear energy, the risks are considerably lower. Thorium’s Story Ideas for using thorium ... similar to curre... read more

How bad is the radiation on Mars?

In 2014, NASA launched the Reducing Galactic Cosmic Rays Challenge, an incentive-based competition that awarded a total of $12,000 to ideas ... radiation on the surface of Mars is pretty hazardous! Th... read more

Federal mining policies, on display in Casper, become new front in fight over coal

The combatants — some 300 miners and ranchers, state politicians and environmentalists — descended on the Casper Events Center for the first of six public meetings on the future of the federal ... coa... read more

Coal is Dead, Gas is King: Politicians Talk Fossil Fuels at ARPA-E Summit

By most accounts, coal plants are unlikely to be built in the U.S. now ... and seemed most concerned with setting details of it off from President Obama's ideas. Primary difference: She wants to fund ... read more

Under Trump, Republicans Have Become the Party of No Ideas

At this point, it's unlikely that Congress will pass a budget resolution ... But for now, the GOP has effectively admitted it has no vision of the future, no ideas for solving the problems that Americ... read more

CHILE PAGES: July 13-19

Director Thomas Piper lets Oudolf impart his ideas on plants, offers some biographical details, and presents a look at his work throughout the year, and that’s about it. This may seem slight, but thos... read more

Minister bans student trend of censoring controversial speakers

It follows a number of high profile cases of attempts by student unions to censor feminists, Tory politicians, gay rights activists ... But Mr Gyimah said a free exchange of ideas must be integral to ... read more

How Global Warming Fell Off the National Agenda

The New York Times ran a lengthy piece asking “Where Did Global Warming ... has fallen off the national agenda. We’ve let it happen. And by “we” I mean everyone from environmentalists to doctors to sc... read more

Forget Mars. Here’s Where We Should Build Our First Off-World Colonies

To explore this issue, let’s be clear about why we’d want an off-world colony in the first place ... which can be converted into fuel while also supporting plants that can make food and oxygen. These ... read more