Новости за 27.12.2012

Winter break is a time for video games and snoozing. But it's also a good time to get some reading done, or at least pretend like you're going to read all the books on those end-of-year lists. Here's what the Gizmodo staff is reading:

Almost crashed one recent morning while I was walking through our house. I hadn’t paid attention as I meandered along toward the coffee-making apparatus, and stepped on one of Airedale Finn’s dog toys. It rolled right out from under my…

How Fossil Fuels Saved Humanity from Nature and Nature from Humanity

Until the last quarter of a millennium, mankind depended on living nature for all its food and clothing, most of its energy, and much of its material and medicines. Then mankind began to develop technologies to augment or displace living nature’s uncertain bounty. In a new study, author Indur Goklany shows how fossil fuels not only saved humanity from nature’s whims, but nature from humanity’s demands. Читать дальше...

A look at the life of the 41st President of the United States