• IBM announces advances toward a computer that works like a human brain In an era when PCs perform like supercomputers, and supercomputers carry out inhuman feats of calculation, some of the brightest minds in Silicon Valley say there are still crucial ways in which a...
• Weather Manipulation Continues World Wide: Chavez asking Cubans to 'bomb clouds' amid drought Related: Weather Manipulation: 'Man-made winter' falls over ChinaVenezuela's President Hugo Chavez says he will join a team of Cuban scientists on flights to "bomb clouds" to create rain amid a...
• Darpa: Freeze Soldiers to Save Injured Brains The Pentagon’s mad-science division has a new way to deal with the 70,000+ troops diagnosed with traumatic brain injury: Freeze ‘em. Darpa, the military’s far-out research arm, is...
• University study: CO2 levels remained constant since 1850 Comment: Remember, remember, Peak Oil will change our lives forever. A central tenet of “climate change” dogma holds that increased emissions (2 billion tons a year in 1850 to 35 billion...
• Weather Manipulation: ‘Man-made winter’ falls over China Government scientists in Beijing have been pilloried for inducing a recent heavy snow fall that jammed traffic, delayed air travel and left city ... read more‘Man-made winter’ falls over...
• Carl Sagan Day celebrated at Florida university The first Carl Sagan Day is being celebrated at Broward College, Florida, in honour of the great astronomer, novelist and sceptic. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author, who died in 1996, would have...
• Nasty pranks or acts of deliberate sabotage: How malware frames the innocent for child abuse Innocent people have been branded as child abusers after malware infected their PCs, an AP investigation has discovered.
Technically sophisticated abusers sometimes store images of child abuse on...
• BullS**t: Bread dropping bird breaks Hadron Collider The Large Hadron Collider’s woes have taken a faintly comic turn after the huge particle accelerator got broken by a piece of bread dropped by a passing bird. Read more
• Peak Energy: U.S. Department of Energy wants a better lightbulb The U.S. Department of Energy is offering $10 million to the first individual or company to develop an energy-efficient LED replacement for the standard 60-watt incandescent bulb. DOE lighting...
• Falling fertility: Astonishing falls in the fertility rate are bringing with them big benefits THOMAS MALTHUS first published his “Essay on the Principle of Population”, in which he forecast that population growth would outstrip the world’s food supply, in 1798. His timing...
• 'Hall of Shame' Calls Out Bogus Internet Censorship New Website Highlights Outrageous Attempts to Take Down Online Content
San Francisco - Websites like YouTube have ushered in a new era of creativity and free speech on the Internet, but not everyone...
• Russia’s NICA collider to unlock mystery of Universe’s creation
Russian scientists, now building their own version of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Dubna near Moscow, plan to use it to solve the mystery of the Universe’s creation
• Pretext for further controlling net traffic: Will swine flu crash the Internet? Related: SEC and Homeland Security need Web backup, GAO saysExcerpt:In its response to the GAO, the DHS said it didn't know which agency had clear or specific authority to allow telecom, cable and...
• Eyes: India's New IT Law Increases Surveillance Powers A new IT law has come into force in India that frees Internet portals from liability for third-party content and activity, but also gives the government powers to monitor communications on the...
Showcase your ideas, writing, and personal site to readers.
Make a secure online donation to 