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How to Make an Entire Sea Disappear
The disappearance of the Aral sea due to cotton production demonstrates how we are over exerting our water supply. Scary stuff. - World Wetlands Day 2009
World Wetlands Day snuck up on us this year (as it seems to do every year)—but given wetlands extraordinary properties and functions in the landscape, take some time to learn a little bit more about them. - Sex, Drugs and Chocolate: the Science of Pleasure
Author Paul Martin’s nonfictional ode to pleasure seems to have hit the market at a point and time when gloominess has replaced hedonistic obsessions. Perhaps in the future his book can guide us to some sort of satisfactory satiation. (via 3qd) - Charles Darwin, Abolitionist
In a lyrically written review of two new books, the issues of “social darwinism” and Darwin’s allignment as an abolitionist is discussed. What is also revealed is the humanity of the man who transformed the world as we know it. - When It Works
Having to wait another year for the LHC to come back online will be the biggest scientific disappointment of 2009—but until then, take a look at this flash animation of how it was supposed to work. (via Reddit).
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