Floating Ark

Pangea Day went by without very much media attention (although it is possible that the rock I live under shielded me from actual coverage) ...

I was watching SportsCenter the other night (not all that uncommon but certainly not a habit) and during a piece highlighting the Ohio State...

Myanmar (Burma) was hit by a devastating cyclone (what we call a hurricane -- it just spins in the opposite direction) yesterday. Up to 23,...

A host of Hollywood celebrities are banning together to raise awareness on the human rights disaster happening right now in Burma. Will Ferr...

I just received an update from the Nader/Gonzalez webteam and I must say it was bold. In it, they link directly to the DNC asking people to ...

I lived in Berkeley for about year in 2005. I got to know parts of Oakland through friends that lived there and events and activities going ...

Some of you may have heard about the garbage patch of the Pacific ocean discovered recently by scientists examining water quality between C...

This guy is amazing. I'm sad his outstanding platform is being buried by Obama and Hillary bickering about who's more bitter. At lea...

I've heard some interesting arguments over the past two days on why we should allow China to host the Olympic Summer Games in a few mont...

Just got back from a long day chasing the "disappearing torch" across San Francisco. There were over 6,000 protesters that turned ...

"This is the biggest art movement in the history of human kind." I bet you don't know what the medium is. "Bomb It,...

The last two minutes of Dr. Martin Luther King's are shockingly prescient. An incredibly powerful speech that is always good to go back ...

The world's attention has been on the tiny mountain kingdom of Tibet over the past two weeks after protests in 6 different Chinese citie...

Early this week we passed the 4,000 death mark in the Iraq War. I've had the war on the brain recently, being more amazed at how out of ...

It's Day 1 of March Madness and I've got my eyes tracking all my picks online. It should be a ridiculously good tournament and I...

I talked with my mother this evening about the lack of focus my generation seems to have when it comes to concentrating on one task for more...

This is just freakin' awesome. If I had a lawn, I'd get one in a heartbeat. A true zero-emissions mower! Albeit, a tad pricey.

Senior Foreign Policy adviser and long-time friend to Senator Barack Obama, Samantha Power, has resigned her position from the Obama campai...

New Mexico's Peter Domenici, the senior Republican on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, slammed any hope of ending corporate ...

Since moving to Iowa City three months ago, I've taken to jogging once in awhile along the Iowa River. There are some paths through what...