| COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A raging wildfire destroyed dozens of houses overnight and charred land on the edges of the Air Force Academy on Wednesday, while thick smoke and intense, towering flames kept officials from learning the full scope of damage to Colorado's second-largest city. BLOG POSTS  | Zachary Podmore: Lake Powell to Lake Powell: The Journey Down the Colorado Begins
As we take our first steps towards the sea in a landscape almost as wild as it was in J.W. Powell's day, the thrill of the journey ahead, the thin mountain air and the landscape all leave me exhilarated. |  | Nathaniel Loewentheil: EO Wilson, Stewart Brand and the Future of Environmentalism
Two strands of thought -- romanticism and technological rationality -- run deep in environmentalism and the tensions between them help illuminate many of the countervailing beliefs and strategies that compose the environmental movement today. |  | Scott Mendelson: Movie Review: Ted
Seth MacFarlane's Ted joins the ranks of Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle and Observe and Report among razor-sharp cultural satires cleverly disguised as dumb comedies. |  | Miller Hudson: The Hinges of Hell
Sitting on our hands and waiting for the jury to return on the effect of greenhouse gasses feels profoundly shortsighted. Whether or not they trigger the widespread warming that is so evidently altering ecosystems, they sure as hell can't be helping. |  | Dr. Jim Taylor: Fear, Gloom, and Panic, Oh My!
If the fight-or-flight survival instinct, which is so deeply woven into our DNA, no longer fulfills our most basic needs to survive, what new form of survival instinct do we need to evolve to help us to survive in the concrete, metal, and hard-wired world in which we now live? | | MOST POPULAR ON HUFFINGTONPOST.COM |
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