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The X-Journals
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As a companion blog following the research, planning and production of a series of documentary films, The X-Journals seek out and explore the ever expanding frontier of new and controversial ideas, discoveries and technologies that could profoundly shape the future of this planet.
Recent Posts
Cutting Greenhouse Pollutants Could Directly Save Millions of Lives Worldwide
New studies published in the Lancet show that strategies to reduce greenhouse gases also benefit human health. The Lancet series highlights case studies on four climate change topics — household energy, transportation, electricity generation, and a...
Message Gone Viral? Blame It on Altruistic, Yet Image-Conscious Internet ‘E-Mavens’
Why do some online ad campaigns go viral while other online marketing messages gather “cyber-dust” on the information superhighway?...
Where the Wild Things Were: How Conservation Efforts Are Failing
In the essay, “Where the Wild Things Were,” currently appearing in Foreign Affairs, Dr. Steven Sanderson, President and CEO of the Wildlife Conservation Society, asserts the world’s political institutions have failed the planet but “realism c...
Climate Change Accelerating Beyond Expectations, Urgent Emissions Reductions Required, Say Leading Scientists
In a special report called ‘The Copenhagen Diagnosis’, the 26 researchers, most of whom are authors of published IPCC reports, conclude that several important aspects of climate change are occurring at the high end or even beyond the expectations...
Researchers Develop Virtual Streams to Help Restore Real Ones
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed a unique new computer model called the Virtual StreamLab, designed to help restore real streams to a healthier state....
1st Neutrino Events, A Step Toward Solving Matter Anti-Matter Mystery
Physicists from the Japanese-led multi-national T2K neutrino collaboration announced today that over the weekend they detected the first neutrino events generated by their newly built neutrino beam at the J-PARC accelerator laboratory in Tokai, Japan...

