PIPA SOPA 2012 Blackout Publicity Stunt – Is One Day Enough?
“And so the whimper of a black out begins… and ends. What now?” First off, let me start off by saying it goes without saying that historically and still currently, Operation Reality aka Opreal...
View ArticleSurprising Science
More often than not, science is a tedious process of checking, rechecking, cross-checking, and finally starting over from scratch. Throughout history, most important technological advances have...
View ArticleElevator to Heaven
A new era in space exploration may soon begin. Traditionally, spacecraft have relied on the combustion chemical fuel to propel them out of our atmosphere and through the solar system. Nearly every...
View ArticleWikileaks publishing confidential Stratfor emails
As of this morning, Wikileaks has officially started publishing some of the 5 million plus emails lifted from Stratfor during Anonymous’s December 2011 hack against Stratfor the global intelligence...
View ArticleYour Future Avatar
New advances in computer and neuroscience are making immortality more possible than ever. That is, if one Russian media-mogul’s vision of the future comes true. At the three-day Global Future 2045...
View ArticleHave You Felt the Power?
One of the most frustrating first-world problems any of us deals with on a daily basis is the low-power device. Whether it’s a cell phone, mp3 player, laptop, or any one of the many portable...
View ArticleTomorrow’s Wars
Militaries have traditionally been among first institutions to adopt new technologies. This is generally due to their large budgets, and the fact that a lot of research occurs within the military...
View ArticleAnimals Apparently not as Dumb as They Act
When asked what the largest difference between humans and animals is, most people would respond that humans are leaps and bounds ahead of even our closest relatives in terms of intelligence. Indeed,...
View ArticleJealous of London’s Tube, the US plans a Bigger, Better Version
In the near future, tubes might be used to bring you more than just internet. Cleaner and quieter than cars, faster than jets, and cheaper than trains, evacuated tube transport just might be the...
View ArticleConcept Weapons of Mass Destruction
World War II was brought to a screeching halt at 8:15 A.M. on August 6, 1945 when the United States debuted the world’s first weapon of mass destruction in Hiroshima. The absolute destruction of this...
View ArticleInorganic Biology
Image credit: colourdance.deviantart.com One of the most burning and perplexing questions in biology today is: just what is life? While on the surface it seems obvious, the line between life and...
View ArticleThis is Your Brain on Happy
Traditional psychology tends to focus on the problems of the mind, treating it like it was any other organ in the body; only paying attention to it when something went wrong. Numerous studies have...
View ArticleWe Can Rebuild You, We Have the Technology
Recent advances in medical technology are taking us to astounding new places. As our understanding of human biology gets better and better, we will not only be able to heal the sick and disabled, but...
View ArticlePre-historic Ecology
Anatomically modern humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years. Yet we did not begin intensive agriculture or city building until between 10,000-15,000 years ago. Prior to this time,...
View ArticleQuantum Leap (of Faith)
Classical physics, while mathematically complex, is based on simple, common-sense principles that everyone is familiar with. On the other hand, quantum physics, the set of laws that describe reality...
View ArticleCausality is so Retro
One of the simplest concepts to grasp in classical physics is the idea of causality. Our world-view is defined by cause-and-effect relationships from the day we are born. This is how we make sense of...
View ArticleSend in the Clones
Nearly 16 years ago, the world marveled at the birth of the first cloned mammal: Dolly the sheep. While experiments with cloning technologies had been ongoing since the 1950′s, this was the first time...
View ArticleRobotic Uprising
Technological advances within the last century have been astounding. We’ve moved from horse-drawn wagons to self-driving cars in the blink of an eye; geologically speaking. New ideas and inventions...
View ArticlePulling Energy from Thin Air
Our society’s quest for new sources of energy is relentless. Literally no stone has been left unturned in our search for fossil fuels. The reasons for this are simple and straight-forward; within the...
View ArticleTurtles All the Way Down?
The study of how our universe began is inherently problematic. Unfortunately, we are as unable to peer directly into the past as we are into the future. To tell us about the past, all we have to rely...
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