Oil for $50 a barrel? It could happen

By dwray in The nature of things

For the past year I've been reporting on the Eagle Ford Shale oil boom . With oil prices hovering around $100 a barrel, most industry insiders were optimistic about the boom. Though shale wells are expensive to drill, with such ...

Feds won't be protecting the dune sagebrush lizard

By dwray in The nature of things

Maybe you've never heard about the sand dune lizard aka the dunes sagebrush lizard that is found in only New Mexico and the edge of Texas, but I've been following the debate over whether or not to protect these creatures ...

Citizen Kane is on the big screen again ... and as mysterious as ever

By dwray in The nature of things

The mystery begins with a single word. “Rosebud,” the dying man whispers, as a glass globe slips from his hand and shatters on the floor. Newspaper magnet Charles Foster Kane wheezes the word out with his last breath and we ...

So flame retardant sandwiches are a thing?

By dwray in The nature of things

Maybe it's just because I'm hungry, but it seems like there's a lot of chatter about the stuff in our food today. The corn lobby worked hard to get high fructose corn syrup renamed "corn sugar" but the FDA was ...