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If you need any new evidence that science is just another arm of politics, look to the switch in...

Like Food Coloring Now, Cultural Mullahs Once Claimed Mexican Food Was A Gateway To Disease

In 1915's The Temperance Program, Thomas F. Hubbard et al. laid out the progressive case for why...

Obama Invented Prediabetes And Kennedy's Wearable Health Monitors Are The Next Evolution

Former Natural Resources Defense Council Attorney Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. didn't get more pro-science...

Lottery Bottle Bill Could Improve Recycling

In the 1980s, there was a conflict raging about recycling. Governments were starting to do it while...

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Implanted chip allows blind people to 'see'

Implanted chip allows blind people to 'see'

Nov 03 2010 | comment(s)

A man with an inherited form of blindness, retinitis pigmentosa, has been able to identify a coffee mug and various shades of gray using a retina implant, according to work published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

The Retina Implant AG is a sub-retinal chip placed in the central macular area behind the retina.   Their chip works by converting light that enters the eye into electrical impulses which get fed into the optic nerve behind the eye.   It requires an external battery which was connected to a cable that protruded from the skin behind the ear.

Retina Implant AG

Archetype Analysis - How World Of Warcraft Will Be The Greatest Sociology Tool Ever

Archetype Analysis - How World Of Warcraft Will Be The Greatest Sociology Tool Ever

Nov 03 2010 | comment(s)

1,400,000 70-dimension histogram vectors about gamer behavior.  What can you do with that?

Me?  Nothing, the math is too much but, if you can make sense of it, a lot of data is there in the ongoing online gaming phenomenon known as World of Warcraft(WoW).   Keeping track of all that data would seem to be solely the purview of computer programmers but sociologists are starting to take notice.   Some people are just goofing off and writing a book about their experiences but others see gold in 'game mining' - the insights of anthropology we can get by seeing what 10 million people do in a virtual, controlled setting over a period of years.
Not just science fiction - 3-D moving holograms get closer

Not just science fiction - 3-D moving holograms get closer

Nov 03 2010 | comment(s)

Remember the "Star Wars" scene where robotic scamp R2-D2 projects a three-dimensional image of Princess Leia trying to ask for help from Obi-Wan Kenobi?   

New 3D holographic imaging technology developed at the University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences is bringing it a little closer.   
Will China overtake the US in science leadership?

Will China overtake the US in science leadership?

Nov 01 2010 | comment(s)

There are times when being a communist dictatorship has its advantages.  Without having to worry about jobs or elections, you can enact a plan and stick to it until it works and, if a million or so peasants get displaced to build a dam, they don't vote anyway.
Happy Halloween - if you didn't watch my

Happy Halloween - if you didn't watch my "5 Movies for Halloween" you can still watch these videos

Oct 31 2010 | comment(s)

I get that not everyone will devote two hours each night, or 10 hours over a weekend, to pumpkin carving a Death Star...

death star pumpkin

 ...or watching 5 terrific Halloween movies, but even if your attention span runs more toward Twitter than IMDB, here are at least a few videos you can try:
5 Days Of Halloween Movies:

5 Days Of Halloween Movies: "The 13th Warrior"

Oct 31 2010 | comment(s)

After "Five Million Miles to Earth" and "Dead of Night" we get to something a little more modern in our 5 Days of Halloween Movies.