David Tuck : childhood's end

OceanX: Bringing us to the ocean by bringing to ocean to us

(a model of the Alucia2 from the OceanX initiative announcement) If you were uncertain for even a moment as to whether OceanX was in any way the opposite of that other X that is trying to reach Mars, then all you have to do is listen to Ray Dalio talk for a few minutes about the Dalio Foundation's ocean initiative. “Some dream of a future on an other planet” he told the audience gathered in the large screen auditorium at the American Museum of Natural History. “We dream of ours.” When he

Book Review: Wildlife of the Arctic by Richard Sale and Per Michelsen

The birds of the Arctic are passing through, migrating northward to their summer breeding grounds. Some time their arrival for the horseshoe crab spawning, and briefly replace the overwintering birds, many already gone. We've see them on the beaches and in the water, and now we find them in the pages of Wildlife of the Arctic by Richard Sale and Per Michelsen. Nearly 200 pages of this excellent pocket guide are dedicated to birds, each species represented by at least one photograph, and a

Time To End Gun Violence

(photo ZhengZhou - The sculpture Non-Violence by Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, in front of UN headquarters at New York City) Hello America. Recent events have shown that there must be stricter gun control laws. Many would agree one shooting is too much, as well as one life lost. But, it has been two school shootings and twenty-seven lives lost and others injured. But, organizations such as the NRA and the US Government have not created more gun control laws. Who knows whose child, parent, sibling,