Weak Paris Agreement Commitments are already mostly on track to not be kept

What are the commitments made by 184 countries related to the Paris Agreement on the environment ? Developed countries have offered absolute economy-wide emissions targets (the United States, for instance, had pledged to reduce its emissions 26-28 percent from 2005 levels by 2025). If fully implemented, the submitted INDCs for 2025 and 2030 are projected …

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NASA Solar Plus Probe named after scientist who predicted that the solar wind would exist

NASA has renamed the Solar Probe Plus spacecraft — humanity’s first mission to a star, which will launch in 2018 — as the Parker Solar Probe in honor of astrophysicist Eugene Parker. Parker believed there was high speed matter and magnetism constantly escaping the sun, and that it affected the planets and space throughout our …

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Cardboard Augmented Reality System works with an App and your Smartphone for $32

For $32 you can back a Kickstarter by Aryzon for an augmented reality app that works with something similar to Google Cardboard for Virtual reality. The current best example of Augmented Reality (AR) is the Microsoft HoloLens which costs $3,000. This system is 100 times cheaper. The Aryzon does not compete directly with current AR …

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