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Biochemist Mike Goosey describes the search for non-food sources for the ‘next generation’ of biofuels and the development of processes to convert them to fuel.  

One of the tenets of green building is sparing resources, says builder Fernando Pages. Pages talks about why green building is really advanced building.  

Why did dinosaurs survive a mass extinction event in the Late Triassic, when their ancient crocodile competitors didn’t? Just lucky, suggests paleontologist Steve Brusatte of Columbia University.  

October 6, 2008. As soon as darkness falls, look for the moon. You’ll find Jupiter blazing nearby. Jupiter and the moon look close together, but Jupiter is much farther away than the moon – 42 light-minutes tonight, in contrast to about a light-second for the moon.  

Microbiologist Dickson Despommier of Columbia University talks about the idea of ‘vertical farming’ in city buildings — growing produce, even fish and poultry, in vertical greenhouses.