Posted By: Scott Harrison Posted On: 9:05 a.m. | May 10, 2011 Jan. 13, 1969: Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) Flight 933 crashed about six miles offshore in Santa Monica Bay while on approach to Los Angeles International Airport. Fifteen passengers and crew were killed and 30 survive.

Home / September 25th, 2010; Vol.178 #7 / Feature Fire & Ice Volcanoes and frozen lands make an explosive combo By Alexandra Witze September 25th, 2010; Vol.178 #7 (p. 16) FIRE AND ICE Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupted quietly at first this spring (shown), until magma shifted directly beneath a glacier.Odd Stefan Thorisson/Nordicphotos/Corbis SVEIFLUHÁLS, Iceland — High atop an Icelandic mountain one magnificent summer day, with blankets of soft moss underfoot and a translucent lake shimmering in the valley below, geologist Emily Constantine Mercurio is conjuring up an image of hell. Tens of thousands of years ago, says Mercurio, a graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh, this place was the heart of a…

The Story of the World’s Most Coveted Flower By Mike Dash Crown Publishers A tulip, known as “the Viceroy”, displayed in a 1637 Dutch catalog. Its bulb cost between 3000 and 4200 florins depending on size. A skilled craftsman at the time earned about 300 florins a year.[1]

Authors David DeSteno and Piercarlo Valdesolo argue that much of our good and bad behavior is situational By Gareth Cook | Tuesday, May 10, 2011 | 21 Author David DeSteno Image: Andre H. Mehta What can science reveal about our “character” — that core of good, or evil, that shapes our moral behavior? The answer, according to a new book, is that there may not be much of a core, after all. In “Out of Character” scientists David DeSteno and Piercarlo Valdelsolo argue that how we think about character — a conception that dates back to at least the ancient Greeks — is deeply flawed. Our moral behavior, to a…