Quote for Today: Jacques-Yves Cousteau
There are no boundaries in the real Planet Earth. No United States, no Russia, no China, no Taiwan. Rivers flow unimpeded across the swaths of continents. The persistent tides, the …
Bringing Nature to the City: Urban Fog Art by Fujiko Nakaya
Have you enjoyed the magic of a bank of fog, letting it slip around you as surroundings vanish and reappear? Many who experience fog simply find it inconvenient and dangerous. …
Quote for Today: Carl Sandburg
And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release – out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur …
Quote for Today: Federico García Lorca
“I’m hurt, hurt and humiliated beyond endurance, seeing the wheat ripening, the fountains never ceasing to give water, the sheep bearing hundreds of lambs, the she-dogs, until it seems the …
Quote for Today: Julian Hawthorne
States of the atmosphere pass into us as water through the meshes of a sieve, and storms occur in us before they break upon the world without, creating restless sensations. …
Quote for Today: T.S. Eliot
What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you know only A heap of broken …
The Evolution of Myth: A Panoply of Dragons
Dragon myths are universal. Dragons themselves vary widely from one imagination to another. What do they show us about ourselves? Our myths tell much about what we hold dear, and …
Listen to the Thirsty Trees
Did you know trees make noise when they get thirsty? Bioacoustician Bernie Krause has amplified and recorded these sounds, which are generally inaudible to human ears. You can read and …
Quote for Today: Deb Caletti
We were right to come here, if only because the ocean reminded you that impossible things were possible. Miles and miles of the deepest waters that moved like clockwork were …
Wind on the Water: Ocean Storm Simulation at GTC 2013
View the latest in ocean simulation as featured at the GPU Technology Conference last month, the real-time, Beaufort Scale simulator called WaveWorks by Nvidia. Programmers now have the ability to …