The Rise and Fall of the Zero-Waste Trash Jar

A trash jar can amplify that personal focus, since keeping one requires such extreme attentiveness to one’s consumption patterns.  Kellogg says it’s simply not worth putting all your energy into a trash jar if it leaves no bandwidth for chipping away at some of those bigger, system-level problems. Sure, shopping zero-waste might support a reuse-centric […]

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A Tiny Sun in a Jar Sheds Light on Solar Flare Research

Seth Putterman started out studying the behavior of plasma for national security reasons. Extremely fast hypersonic missiles heat and ionize the surrounding air and form a cloud of charged particles called plasma, which absorbs radio waves and makes it hard for operators on the ground to communicate with the missiles—a problem Putterman was trying to solve. […]

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A Tiny Sun in a Jar Is Shedding Light on Solar Flares

Seth Putterman started out studying the behavior of plasma for national security reasons. Extremely fast hypersonic missiles heat and ionize the surrounding air and form a cloud of charged particles called plasma, which absorbs radio waves and makes it hard for operators on the ground to communicate with the missiles—a problem Putterman was trying to solve. […]

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