Month: January 2012

What does the discovery of pestalotiopsis microspora mean for ridding polyurethane waste?

What does the discovery of pestalotiopsis microspora mean for ridding polyurethane waste?

In light of the inevitable, irrecyclable mounds of waste that lie on and beneath our Earth’s surface, Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory scientists at Yale University, along with their biochemistry professor, have discovered a fungus in the Amazon Rainforest that’s diet consists of purely plastic, more specifically, 

Shame: when all you want isn’t enough [spoiler]

Shame: when all you want isn’t enough [spoiler]

“Shame is pride’s cloak” —William Blake The first ten or so minutes in Steve McQueen’s Shame give you a taste of Brandon Sullivan’s (Michael Fassbender) relentless bachelor lifestyle: the fancy high rise one bedroom apartment, his foolish charm; how by simply exchanging a glimpse with a 

We love Real Estate

We love Real Estate

Not that kind, but we hadn’t heard a good ‘new’ album in what seems like forever, then we heard Real Estate—the band. Their harmonic lyrics like, “all those wasted miles/ all those aimless drives/ our careless lifestyle/ it was not so unwise/ no,” threaded with the 

Scientists prepare to take the first-ever photograph of our universe’s strangest phenomenon

Scientists prepare to take the first-ever photograph of our universe’s strangest phenomenon

“Although the Universe seems to be much the same at each position in space, it is definitely changing in time”  —Stephen Hawking, Into the Universe  Researchers at the University of Arizona have initiated an “Event Horizon,” which invites scientists from all over the world to