Climate Change Forecasts Improve

Scientists investigate the unknown. It’s is unknown, that’s why so little is known about it. That’s true with pandemics, their Continue reading →

North Pole Shifting

The North Poles are moving. There are two North Poles: the geographic and the magnetic. The geographic one is the Continue reading →

Popular Posts 2018

Welcome to the new year, which is a good time to look back at the old year. PretendingNotToPanic.com is explicitly Continue reading →

Entangled Time

Okay. Prepare for a mind bender. Entanglement is weird enough. Entangled particles are mirror images that can communicate instantaneously across Continue reading →

Data That Matters April 2017

Renewable energy has doubled in ten years with 161GW added in 2016. US productivity dropped by 0.2%, possibly through reduced Continue reading →

Bugs Eating Plastic

As pollution, plastic is amazingly persistent. It is meant to last, but ironically, we typically use it for throw-away items. Continue reading →

Tricorder Invented

Inspired by the always-handy tricorders from Star Trek, a competition resulted in winners who created something similar. The handy thing Continue reading →

Tardigrade Protein Found

Tardigrades are only about 0.5 mm long. For a long time they were curiosity. Then, researchers noticed they lived on Continue reading →