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Stop polluting & start stopping – Do you get riled when you see drivers coast through stop signs, as if they were just a “suggestion?” Some experts think that stop signs are part of the problem instead of a solution. And taxi drivers in China may be playing loud radios but at least they’re breathing again.

According to Canadian traffic expert Said Easa, intersections with stop signs can be some of the deadliest places on the road. In 2005 the Ministry of Transportation reported 62,000 crossing and turning collisions at stop-sign controlled and other types of intersections throughout Ontario, resulting in nearly 150 deaths and approximately 16,000 injuries. That’s nearly five times the number of fatalities as rear-end collisions in the same year.
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Space is getting as crowded as a public beach in the summer, with everyone heading for the moon and leaving their trash behind. It’s time to set up some international rules!

How best to cope with the rising tide of orbital space debris? What international rules of behavior are required? Can space travel go “green?”

Researcher Ray Williamson says, “[This] is a recognition that the world needs to come together to develop appropriate international legal instruments to guide space activities for the future.” Before you blast off, Be sure to pack litter bags?

The key to getting into space may have to do with (believe it or not) sound. Find out all about it on this week’s Dreamland!

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Anne’s new diary UPDATE! – In her new diary, Anne Strieber writes: “The Stargate Conference during the weekend of October 16- 18 was a time of incredible synchronicity for me, and some of it was downright funny. It started on Friday afternoon, when I rubbed the belly of a fat, golden Buddha statue on the grounds. In Buddhism, rubbing the fat Buddha’s belly is supposed to bring good luck, but then absolutely everything started to go wrong!” Keep reading for UPDATE.
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Coastal cities may soon be underwater. Before big cities drown, they should USE that water to make electricity!

A group of architects have developed a proposal for a series of floating docks for New York City that would contain turbines underneath them, where they couldn’t be seen, which would produce electricity by churning up the water and eventually power all the streetlights in the city.
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