Geoengineering and the Fight against Climate Change: Maggie on "To the Point" radio show (audio)

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Two of my favorite people talk about one of my favorite topics, all on the same radio program. Our very own Maggie Koerth-Baker was interviewed by my friend (and former NPR colleague) Alex Chadwick on KCRW's daily show "To the Point" today, to talk about "Geoengineering and the fight against climate change."

Human "Ingredients-List" shirt

Qwantz sends us "A shirt (done in consultation with medical professionals) that not only lists your nutritional

Can a kid be a psychopath?

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Volcano in a trash can

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Plinian eruptions are named after Pliny the Younger and Pliny the Elder, who wrote about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 and died during said eruption, respectively. This is one of several different types of volcanic eruptions, but it's also one of the most iconic. In a Plinian eruption, a column of magma, gas, and ash shoots straight up, with the gas and ash reaching all the way up into the stratosphere. These are the big, explosive eruptions, with mushroom clouds and rains of rocks and boulders.

How to: Make a unicorn

At Popperfont, the great David Ng discusses the biological and/or evolutionary steps necessary to produce a theoretical real-life unicorn. I find it delightfully ironic that his first possible route involves something that, if I were to show you pictures of it*, you would probably request a unicorn chaser.

High-tech ghost-town being built in the middle of the NM desert

A defense contractor called Pegasus Global Holdings is building a replica of Rock Hill, SC in the middle of the New Mexico desert, which will be used to prototype self-driving cars, green buildings and smart meters. It will be an uninhabited lab, a "theme park for scientists." They're calling it "The Center for Innovation, Testing and Evaluation." From Don Worthington's article in the Rock Hill Herald: