About 20 years ago, I wrote a short proposal to the Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) to obtain funding for a dinosaur dig site behind my kids’ Montessori preschool. We were awarded $1,000 under PNM’s Innovation Grant Program to construct a make-believe field site that included plaster-covered dinosaur…

Nearly 60% of the calories we burn every day comes from doing absolutely nothing at all. This is called your resting metabolic rate, and it is influenced by genetics, body composition (fat vs. muscle), hormones, and organ size. Another 30% is burned during physical activity, and the remaining 10% is…

I feel like I lost a part of the family today. Alex Trebek, long-time host of the game show Jeopardy, has died today at the age of 80. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, my family and I have played Jeopardy and even gone back into the vaults of old episodes available…

The New Dilemma: Geoengineering the Earth’s Climate As planet Earth quickly passes the point-of-no-return in the runaway greenhouse effect that could eventually destroy life on our planet, the focus is turning more and more to ways to “geoengineer” the Earth’s climate. This is certainly not a new concept. Efforts at…

This is not a hypothetical question. Mid-July one of my best friends from grade school through high school went to the emergency room with severe abdominal pains. A CAT scan showed cancerous lesions all over her liver and surrounding organs — stage 4 metastatic cancer. The ER doctors told her…

By now, most people have conceded that global warming — or the more comprehensive term, global climate change — is inevitable. Natural and manmade greenhouse emissions, changes in our sun’s solar output, and black carbon particulates in the air have assured us of that. There is also little doubt that…