The Cosmos co-creator reflects on her husband’s legacy and how Hollywood can inspire careers in science.
Source: The Story of the Brilliant, Incendiary Trump Ad That Has Cannes Buzzing – Adweek
Source: Coal in the Trump age: Industry has a pulse, but prospects for jobs are weak – The Washington Post
The punitive California Air Resources Board (CARB) has figured out how Audi cheated on a particular run of “several hundred thousand” of their cars, according to a new report by the German newspaper BILD am Sonntag. This time we Americans have discovered a trick in the car’s software that relates to the steering wheel.
Source: America Figured Out A New Way Audi Cheated on Emissions Testing: Report
From Cambodia to California, industrial-scale sand mining is causing wildlife to die, local trade to wither and bridges to collapse. And booming urbanisation means the demand for this increasingly valuable resource is unlikely to let up
Source: Sand mining: the global environmental crisis you’ve never heard of | Cities | The Guardian
This novel solution to the world’s nuclear waste problem could power the future.
Source: Scientists Are Turning Nuclear Waste Into Super-Efficient Diamond Batteries » Second Nexus
“We’ve got the scientists, we’ve got the lawyers, and we’re ready to fight.”
This sounds too good to be true: The folks over at Whirlpool’s skunkworks, WLabs, have apparently developed a machine that can turn food waste into fertilizer in just 24 hours. Composting by conventional means ordinarily takes weeks or months; and Naturemill, a company that once made indoor composting machines, stopped
Source: Whirlpool Selling Machine That Turns Food Waste into Fertilizer in Just 24 Hours – Core77
A Trump golf course received an environmental award in 2007, but there’s no evidence of any other awards lauding Trump’s record on the environment.
Source: Trump’s unsupported claim he has ‘received awards on the environment’ – The Washington Post