Month October 2009

Transient global amnesia

Last night, a good friend was seemingly fine when suddenly his short-term memory disappeared. The emergency room ran a battery of tests and said it was not a stroke but probably the baffling, little known and less understood, transient global…

Carbon emissions dropping sharply in U.S.

Since 2007, carbon emissions have dropped 9 percent. While part of this drop is from the recession, part of it is also from efficiency gains and from replacing coal with natural gas, wind, solar, and geothermal energy More cuts are…