Year 2012: End of the World

If you’re wondering why the “n” in Mayan is in parenthesis in the title, it’s because it should in fact be Maya, but media more typically uses the popular, but incorrect, “Mayan.” This is a relatively small mix up compared to all of the excitement about a supposed “Mayan Prophecy” for world shaking events of [...]

I was quite distressed last year about the BP oil spill. I honestly had a hard time bringing myself to write about it at the time. But after months, they managed to get the temporary cap in place, and suddenly the story was dead. Nobody wanted to talk about the underwater oil plume, or the [...]

I wish I did not have cause to write this article. Unfortunately the problem that is the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico just does not seem like it will go away. The truth of the matter is the leak could be stopped today and the problems it presents us as a planet, [...]