Technology

As I sit here with a Cesária Évora CD on in the house, I have an update to the car AV system issue, wherein it couldn’t stop playing Bob Dylan. That is, I found out why it’s playing a disproportionate amount of Dylan. ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Jan 12 2012 - 2:28pm

A Clue In The Identity Of The ClimateGate Email Hacker?

If someone talks about WikiLeaks and admires transparency and accountability but talks about ClimateGate and talks about how the emails were illegally obtained and stresses the researchers were absolved of science misconduct, you know how they vote. And on ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jan 4 2012 - 11:14am

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Blog Post - Animesh Chatterjee - Jan 5 2012 - 7:37pm

Eco-Wealth Leads To Eco-Fraud: But Science Can Help

Rightly or wrongly, the marketing campaign for organic food has worked. People have demonstrated that they will overpay for organic food despite their being no difference in nutritional value, the same way they will pay for homeopathy or magic crystals. B ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 12 2012 - 9:02am

Mendeley Gets Funding To Develop A Citation Style Language Editor

Mendeley, the citation sharing tool, and the Columbia University Libraries have agreed to jointly develop a graphical and user-friendly Citation Style Language editor, which will enable academic researchers to develop their own citation styles, significan ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 19 2012 - 11:07am

Money For Startups: Endangered Specie?

For innovative and high-tech startups that need financing, a worldwide drought is in the offing. Coming shortage of equity investment The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor reports a surge in early-stage entrepreneurial activity worldwide in 2011. Over 12 pe ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Feb 13 2012 - 9:31pm

SpeechJammer Gun Shuts People Up Remotely

Japanese researchers Kazutaka Kurihara of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and Koji Tsukada of Ochanomizu University have developed a portable SpeechJammer gun that can silence people from a hundred feet away. Their clai ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Mar 3 2012 - 6:34pm

Cool Future Tech: Heart Pacemaker Powered By The Heart Itself

A mini-medical machine could mean a new power scheme for cardiac pacemakers. Rather than use batteries, engineering researchers at the University of Michigan say they can use vibrations from heartbeats themselves. Their new device is designed to harvest e ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 5 2012 - 10:47am

Biodegradable Transistors Are Made From...You

The basis of the computing revolution is silicon but that popularity has led to e-waste. We are okay with iPads being made in Chinese child labor sweat shops but we don't want to damage American landfills after we replace them. A team from Tel Aviv U ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 7 2012 - 10:39am

It's Always Raining Links- But Do We Ever Have Droughts?

Not a day goes by where rain doesn't fall on the Earth. Our weather patterns have changed through the eons and there have been wetter periods and dryer periods but so far as I know the rain keeps falling and will continue to keep falling until Earth ...

Blog Post - Michael Martinez - Jun 3 2012 - 3:50am