Dec 14 Just Ask: How Does Sunscreen Work? By Jenny Marder As a cold front settles across the Eastern seaboard, we turn wistfully to thoughts of the sun for this week's Just Ask! science post. This one comes from a reader, Amanda Teicher, who wants to know: "How does sunscreen work?"… Continue reading
Dec 13 Watch Gawker Hacking Exposes Some Web Users' Bad Password Habits Gawker Media, one of the web's largest publishers, was hacked over the weekend and information for about 1.3 million users was made public. Jeffrey Brown speaks with the NewsHour's Hari Sreenivasan about the cyber attack and what it means for… Continue watching
Dec 13 Avoiding Eruptions - While Covering Them It took a long time and a lot of persistence to get to the summit of the most active volcano in Indonesia. The trip down came quicker - and went faster than I would have liked. Clearly, I… Continue reading
Dec 13 What We're Reading: Saturn's Rings, Little Brown Bat Disease and Fossil Looting Epidemiology: Fear in the Dust Nature News reports on the mineral erionite, which has been linked to startling rates of the rare lung condition, mesothelioma, in some Turkish villages. It turns out dangerous levels of erionite are also… Continue reading
Dec 13 Watch Is the Web Becoming Less Secure? In the wake of the Gawker Media hacking over the weekend, Jeffrey Brown gets a wider perspective about the vulnerability of online information and the danger of further cyberattacks from James Lewis of the Center for Strategic and International Studies… Continue watching
Dec 12 Gawker Data Breach Could Lead to Attacks on Government Agencies Gawker Media, one of the web's largest publishers, has been hacked. The insides of the multiple websites within their portfolio, their 1.3 million user names, e-mail addresses and passwords, are now splayed all across the Internet for anyone… Continue reading
Dec 10 Cancun Climate Talks: Signs of Progress or More Stumbling Blocks? By Jenny Marder As the U.N. Climate Negotiations wind up in Cancun, Mexico, we asked a variety of experts and climate watchers what they make of the summit so far, and what its outcome could mean for the future of international climate policy. Continue reading
Dec 09 David Pogue: We're Still in 'Neanderthal' Era of E-Books New York Times technology columnist David Pogue spoke with Jeffrey Brown recently about the state of e-book evolution and the latest trends in digital cameras and tablets. DetectFlashDecision_Blog('news01s4612qff1', '4KR6H2OyBTI', '29'); More of their conversation airs on… Continue reading
Dec 09 Watch David Pogue: Cycle of New Consumer Technology Is 'Off the Tracks' New York Times technology columnist David Pogue talks to Jeffrey Brown about this holiday season's most sought-after gadgets and how consumers can get the most out of their purchasing power. Continue watching
Dec 09 Cancun Climate Talks Enter Final Days, Report Shows Rapidly Melting Glaciers As global temperatures rise, glaciers are rapidly losing mass, especially in low-lying, arid regions, according to a report released by the United Nations Environment Program this week. Glacier melt could sap water resources and cause severe flooding in some… Continue reading