Jul 11 'Have Wit, Will Travel': The Life of an Economist And Stand-Up Comic By Paul Solman Economics was dubbed "the dismal science" by 19th century English intellectual Thomas Carlyle. The reason: the Reverend Thomas Malthus' grim prediction, around 1800, that population would inevitably outstrip food supply, since the former grows geometrically (1,2,4,8...), the latter, arithmetically (1,2,3,4...). Continue reading
Jul 11 Record Drought Threatens Millions in Eastern Africa By Betty Ann Bowser More than 10 million people are desperately in need of food assistance in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya, the World Food Program estimated this week, as the worst drought in 60 years continues to ravage eastern Africa. The situation in Somalia… Continue reading
Jul 08 Watch Big Sky Country Struggles With Yellowstone Oil Spill Aftermath In Montana, contractors have been working 12 hours a day to soak up what they can of the estimated 42,000 gallons of crude oil that escaped into the Yellowstone River from a broken ExxonMobil pipeline. Correspondent Tom Bearden reports from… Continue watching
Jul 08 Watch NASA's Shuttle Era Winds Down With Bittersweet Moments, Grocery Run Despite troublesome weather, space shuttle Atlantis blasted into orbit for the final time Friday with a four-person crew and a payload of food for the International Space Station. Judy Woodruff and science correspondent Miles O'Brien discuss this final mission, the… Continue watching
Jul 08 The Space Shuttle Era in 10 Stories On the occasion of the last space shuttle launch, we looked back at some notable NewsHour coverage of the shuttle program over the years: 1986 | The Challenger disaster reaches back beyond our online resources, but we can… Continue reading
Jul 08 Montanans Worry About Fallout from Yellowstone Spill "The last, best place." That's how Montanans often describe their state to outsiders. "A great place to raise a family" is also popular. They brag about their deep blue "Big Sky," the scenery, and the hunting and… Continue reading
Jul 08 Atlantis Lifts Off Into History, Launching Last Shuttle Mission EmbedVideo(959, 482, 304); Against grim weather odds, space shuttle Atlantis and her four-person crew made history on Friday, blasting off from the launch pad and soaring into the clouds, bound for space and the International Space Station for… Continue reading
Jul 08 Watch Atlantis Launches on Historic Mission The space shuttle Atlantis lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center for the final mission of the 30-year-old program Friday morning. Continue watching
Jul 07 Watch Mock Mission to Mars Tests Psychological Rigors of Long-Distance Space Travel Mock Mission to Mars Tests Rigors of Long-Distance Space Travel… Continue watching
Jul 07 Miles O'Brien: 'Mixed Emotions' Surround Final Space Shuttle Launch The space shuttle Atlantis launch will mark the last liftoff for NASA's shuttle program. NASA photo. Miles O'Brien has covered 40 space shuttle launches. He led CNN's coverage of the loss of space shuttle, Columbia, and he co-anchored astronaut… Continue reading