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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Inventions, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 06 29th, 2010 | 1 Comment

BP Spins Kevin Costner Oil-Separating Centrifuge into Action

“I’ve been to all the oil spill conferences around he country and all I see are booms and the latest helicopter. But I’ve never seen one machine that deals with getting the oil out. That’s me.” — Kevin Costner Actor Kevin Costner was visibly frustrated when he testified...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Physics and Chemistry, Space on 06 28th, 2010 | No Comments

Black Holes and Holographic Worlds — from World Science Festival

Black Holes and Holographic Worlds: (1:33:28) Dutch professor and physicist Robbert Dijkgraaf says the idea of black holes falls right in between the two largest theories in physics–general relativity and quantum mechanics. General relativity describes large structures in the universe while quantum...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Earthquake, Geology, Video on 06 24th, 2010 | No Comments

Small Quake Rocks Cleveland

A magnitude 3 earthquake sent a small scare through northern Ohio yesterday. The quake measuring a 5.5 on the Richter Scale struck on the Ontario-Quebec border near Ottawa, Ontario just before 2:00 p.m. on June 23. The Cleveland Museum of Natural History captured the event on its seismograph. This rare...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Environment, Geology, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Oceanography, Politics, Video on 06 23rd, 2010 | No Comments

BP Flow Rate Technical Panelist Says Scientists Need Data Not Speculation

Over the last few weeks, scientists — including those on the government’s Flow Rate Technical Panel — have been unable to pinpoint how many gallons of oil are flooding the Gulf of Mexico. Ira Leifer who is part of a 12-scientist panel guiding the Obama administration as it tries to...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Politics, Science Policy, Space, Video on 06 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

John Glenn Wants To Keep Shuttles Flying

America’s first hero astronaut is calling on the Obama administration to reverse course and keep NASA’s space shuttle program alive. John Glenn says retiring Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavor later this year would ground U.S. manned space flight for at least a decade. “Why terminate...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Atmospheric science, Environment, Physics and Chemistry, Video, Weird Weather on 06 21st, 2010 | No Comments

Mystery of Hole Punch Clouds Explained

New research from the National Center for Atmospheric Research has solved the mystery of so-called hole punch clouds. As turboprop and jet aircraft climb or descend under certain atmospheric conditions, they can inadvertently seed mid-level clouds and cause narrow bands of snow or rain to develop and...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Around the Americas, Environment, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 06 17th, 2010 | No Comments

Ocean Watch Returns after Circumnavigating the Americas

pacsci on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free After a 13-month journey around North and South America the crew of Ocean Watch is returning to Seattle today. They have sailed around the Americas raising awareness about ocean health and conducting a few science experiments along the way. Join the conversation...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate Change, Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Politics, Video on 06 16th, 2010 | No Comments

President Obama Addresses Nation from the Oval Office About the BP Oil Spill

Full Transcript of President Obama’s speech, “A Faith in the Future that Sustains us as a People” President Obama addressed the nation last night, assuring all Americans that he is working hard, with scientists, engineers, oil company executives and 30,000 volunteers and aid workers...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Ecology, Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Video on 06 15th, 2010 | 2 Comments

Oil-eating Microbes Could Help in Gulf Disaster

A small bioremediation company in San Antonio is offering the use of its oil-eating microbes to help reduce the impact of the Horizon Deepwater oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The government is also looking for credible suggestions to sop up oil on facebook.

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Environment, Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 06 14th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Health Concerns Rise Over Use of Oil Dispersant Corexit

Seven Louisiana fishermen reported getting sick after exposure to the oil dispersant that is being used to thin the oil slick on the Gulf of Mexico. Nalco, the company that makes Corexit, the dispersant used after the April 20 Horizon Deepwater oil spill, says it has faith in its product. It insists...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Environment, Geology, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 06 11th, 2010 | No Comments

Scientists Struggle To Narrow Oil Leak Estimate

British Petroleum’s oil leak is dumping an Exxon Valdez worth of oil into the Gulf of Mexico every 8-10 days, according to new estimates by scientists who are watching the black geyser a mile beneath the surface very closely. New estimates show the damaged well leaking twice as much oil as previously...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Oceanography, Video on 06 10th, 2010 | No Comments

Oceanographers Join the Oil Spill Fight with Robot Subs

An autonomous underwater vehicle from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute just returned from gathering important data about the gulf Oil spill as scientists begin to help figure out how much oil is continuing to leak day by day and what’s happening almost a mile below the surface of the...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Engineering, Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Video on 06 7th, 2010 | No Comments

BP Cap Collects Oil as Underwater Plumes are Mapped

BP has begun to have some success in closing the Gulf of Mexico oil leak, CBC’s David Common reports Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen said the newly installed wellhead cap is now containing about 462,000 gallons of oil a day from leaking into the Gulf. The new cap is slowing the leak, up from about...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Environment, Geoengineering, Horizon Oil Spill, Video on 06 1st, 2010 | No Comments

Oil Spill: BP Fails at Top Kill as Oil Continues to Flow

The White House warns that oil from the Gulf of Mexico disaster will likely continue leaking until August after BP declares its ‘top kill’ operation a failure, the CBC’s David Common reports. Editor’s note: Why doesn’t a consortium of structural, ocean and even geo engineers...

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