US Coast Guard setting up panel to examine best ideas for cleaning up the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Bloomberg reports: “‘There has been a lot of concern that there are significant ideas not getting full voice,’ Wright said today in a telephone interview. ‘The government wanted to make sure that all the [...]

The 21st-century “renaissance”, if there is one underway, must include the favoring of methods of education that allow students to learn about judging quality of information and checking source material. If we cannot read critically and intelligently, we cannot be whole people in the Information Age.

Has there been any effort to contain the underwater plumes, aside from using “dispersants”? Is there any known fabric or flexible synthetic material that could be used to contain large amounts of floating underwater petroleum?