Month April 2010

One solution? Let the women in

Negating women is at the heart of the church’s hideous — and criminal — indifference to the welfare of boys and girls in its priests’ care. Lisa Miller writes in Newsweek’s cover story about the danger of continuing to marginalize…

Solar paint

Chicago-based NextGen Solar is doing R&D into solar paint and hopes to make it a commercial product The breakthrough is a new kind of material that can be applied like paint to walls, roofs, windows or just about anything. In…

Mexico City is sinking

How bad is the sinking? Sewage tunnels are running backwards as the city sinks up to 8 inches a year. One sewage canal backed up, broke through a dike, then flooded 4,000 homes with raw sewage. Yuck. The Aztecs had…