Technology

First Trailer For The Walking Dead Video Game Released

SAN RAFAEL, California, March 20, 2012- Telltale Games and Robert Kirkman, the Eisner Award-winning creator/writer of The Walking Dead for Skybound/Image, has released the first trailer for their upcoming game, The Walking Dead.  The Walking Dead is set i ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Sep 7 2012 - 9:08am

Double Precautionary Principle Danger: A Robot Built With Nanotubes

Here is a precautionary principle two-for-one special.   ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 23 2012 - 1:25pm

Graphene: 'Wonder' Material May Revolutionize DNA Sequencing

In the era of Big Science, it is often assumed that cutting-edge research can't be done cheaply.  Yet even now a piece of tape can lead to a Nobel prize.   Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov  got one that way, for their discovery of graphene, a type ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 27 2012 - 7:49pm

What Do You Meme?

“And then I was like FUUUUUU”. This is how stories end nowadays. I dare to make a claim about the flow of stories because I believe the ontology of stories follows a predictable and stable pattern and it is this: I present to you a situation in which I wa ...

Article - Samuel Tettner - Mar 28 2012 - 2:20pm

Why The WikiLeaks Model Of Radical Transparency Failed

After WikiLeaks released classified and sensitive government documents, predictions of the scale and significance of their impact were overstated. The desire/hope of proponents that the WikiLeaks disclosures of 2010 meant conventional mechanisms for contro ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 28 2012 - 9:00pm

Elsevier Launches Peer Review Report Transparency Pilot Program

Will review reports published with articles enhance peer review quality?  ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 2 2012 - 1:00pm

Robotic Hands Get Delicate

Robots don't understand subtlety- what is effortless to a human, like pouring juice into a cup, is a challenge for a machine. While one hand holds the glass bottle firmly, the other one must gently grasp the cup. Researchers at Saarland University tog ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2012 - 1:00am

Can Cartoons Be Sell Outs? Final Fantasy Characters Wear Prada

It's the team-up no one ever expected to see; video game characters and...fashion.  But it has. The latest issue of Arena Homme+, a men's fashion magazine, has a CGI photo shoot of Final Fantasy video game characters showing off the Prada 2012 M ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 4 2012 - 5:00pm

Black People Blog More Than Whites, Hispanics

Despite claims that there is not enough diversity in anonymous, voluntary efforts, it often comes down to choice.  Women are not discriminated against on Wikipedia, though more men do it, and white people are not prevented from blogging just because more b ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 5 2012 - 2:14pm

Autism Diagnosis- The Short Form

Want to get an autism diagnosis but are just too darn busy? Researchers at Harvard Medical School are here to help.  Yes, the process of diagnosing autism is complex and subjective but what about if qualified people are not there to help or you are in a ru ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 10 2012 - 12:13pm