November 2006 Archives

Charming to the last the oil industry is. From a report on Conscious Earth:

'The producers of An Inconvenient Truth have offered to supply American classrooms with 50,000 copies of the movie free of charge. That offer has been rejected by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), the nation's leading science education teachers group, citing a risk to funding from key financial supporters. One of those supporters is Exxon-Mobil.'

We finally got to see Casino Royale. With apologies to Eamonn Dunphy, it was 'a good movie not a great movie'. It's the best Bond movie in twenty years but there are still problems. With it's heady mix of no frills service, bruised nads and dodgy drinks it all adds up to one thing: the Ryanair of Bond movies.

First thing first: Danel Craig is good. Very good. He's believable physically, displays a thuggish brutality that Fleming would have recognised and he resists the urge to act with his eyebrows. So far so good. There's a great opening scene - a moody black & white prologue which sets an edgy dark tone for the unfolding story. But then the song starts.

According to, well whoever wrote it on Wikipedia, your 'Ecological Footprint' can be described (sharp intake of breath) as follows:

'The phrase "ecological footprint" is a metaphor used to depict the amount of land and water area a human population would hypothetically need to provide the resources required to support itself and to absorb its wastes, given prevailing technology. The term was first coined in 1992 by Canadian ecologist and professor at the University of British Columbia, William Rees'.

Hot on the heels of Richard Dawkins' best-selling 'The God Delusion' comes the publication of a new Carl Sagan tome entitled 'The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God'. Edited by his wife, Ann Druyan (herself no slouch in the scientific field), the book is a series of edited lectures given by Sagan in 1985.

We're fans here at Globaleyes, and eagerly anticipate this book's release. In fact, if we can be so cheeky, we reckon this would make an excellent xmas present for some of your mates.