Archives for November 2012

Laughing camel being tickled.

Hurricane Sandy knocked out electricity to New York University’s Langone Hospital, which had to evacuate its patients. Bellevue Hospital also had to be cleared and the patients sent elsewhere. This story is a horrible one, and one’s heart goes out to the patients, already ill, who lost electricity under these frightening circumstances and had to […]

NASA scientist James Hansen explains that we are facing a planetary emergency and that the public is still largely unaware of how menacing it is. The danger is that we could pass tipping points, such as melting of ice sheets, which could lead to rapid increases in sea level. —– Cole: If the public understood […]

Colorado mom captures little daughter’s frustration with the length of the presidential campaign. Back story here.