Technology

Recreating Technology: If You Landed On Another Planet, Could You Make A Toaster?

Just supposing, what if you landed on a planet a lot like Earth and, bereft of modern technology, had to try and rebuild something that looks like home?   You could survive, sure, a little trial and error would get you food and shelter. Creating fire can b ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 15 2025 - 12:36pm

Using AI To Find Neural Traits In Social Interaction

An algorithm that maps individual brain activity can reveal a “neural fingerprint” of  transient brain states during social interactions.  The authors of the new paper believe their work demonstrates that individuals whose neural fingerprints are more alig ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 25 2025 - 9:40am

Fortified By Silk: Nutrients And Pesticides Get A New Targeted Approach

Greenpeace is in a longstanding campaign to oppose a public domain Golden Rice created by scientists so that it can be grown to create more Vitamin A and prevent blindness in children of poor countries. It is part of their long history of promoting claims ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 29 2025 - 1:19pm

AI Simulation Says Neonics May Make Bees Stressed Out

Honeybees are important pollinators for agriculture like the sweetener and almond industries but are also invoked by environmentalists targeting pesticides. It's hard to separate marketing hype from reality but scholars believe simulations and a monit ...

Article - News Staff - May 1 2025 - 4:00am

Science Friday On NPR Faces A Funding Crisis

NPR, National Public Radio, is in a tough spot- they are constantly accused of liberal bias (and, let's be honest, they have never done a story on how taxes hurt poor people or how much better the environment is than 40 years ago, so there is somethin ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 2 2025 - 8:16pm

Holograms And The Future That Never Came

Stereoscopes entertained every Victorian home with their ability to produce three-dimensional pictures. Typewriters and later fax machines were once essential for business practices. Photo printers and video rentals came and went from high streets. When i ...

Article - The Conversation - May 2 2025 - 8:28pm

How Does Streaming Technology Work?

Live and on-demand video constituted an estimated 66% of global internet traffic by volume in 2022, and the top 10 days for internet traffic in 2024 coincided with live streaming events such as the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson boxing match and coverage of the ...

Article - The Conversation - May 3 2025 - 4:30am

If You Buy Magic Rocks, You're The Target Market For HoLDI-MS To Detect Nanoplastic

Homeopathic levels of plastic are the latest environmental scaremongering fad (Nanoplastics! Microplastics!) dominating partisan corporate media when they are not suddenly simping for Trickle Down Economics, Vaccines, and Capitalism they distrusted just a ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 9 2025 - 4:31am

Drones Work For Pesticide Applications

Though organic™ farmers sell bucolic imagery of hoeing by hand and sunsets over fields of corn, it is just marketing to the gullible. All farmers who make more than enough money to pay their real estate taxes(1) are high-tech gurus. They use real-time data ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 14 2025 - 10:23am

Let’s Get Vertical

Agriculture has one hell of a footprint, occupying 37.6 percent of earth’s land area, or about 0.7 hectares (1.7 acres) per person to feed our world's ...

Blog Post - Norm Benson - May 21 2025 - 11:11am