Science and Technology
Only 1 in 4 ? Not enough! If you tell me I have to buy a Kindle, Nook, EReader or tablet freshman year and books will be available through that system, i would jump at it. One of the most prohibitive things about being in a walkable environment like a college campus is carrying around...
Read more →Salute to Tech Crunch’s Alexia Tsotsis: The most ridiculous part about this whole episode is that the post in question wasn’t even that “snarky,” whatever the hell that means. I mean it’s not like I wrote “Movie Studio Creates ‘Game’ In Order To Get People To Spam Their Friends On Facebook” in the...
Read more →Netflix is on Amazon’s Cloud, but now Amazon is trying to burst Netflix’s bubble by rolling streaming video into it’s Amazon Prime service.
Read more →Like a good deal of bloggers, I haven’t commented because the situation in these countries prior was not something that I paid much attention to prior to the current political unrest. As a result, I am ignorant about the myriad of unique issues affecting each situation. The news media has decided that at least...
Read more →Scientific American reveals the surprise…. Compare New York City and Denver: Residents of the nation’s most populous city in America emit half the amount of Mile-High residents — 10.5 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent versus 21.5 metric tons. “Some cities don’t have the luxury of deciding where they are ,” said Daniel Hoornweg,...
Read more →Own a PowerBalance bracelet? It’s just b.s., and you were suckered. Carry on finding out what your new Zodiac sign is. Or means. Good luck if you’re the snake wrestler Ophic….whatever it is.
Read more →Edward Felton is in as the FTC’s first Chief Technologist and it seems like a damn good choice. In the last decade alone, Felten and his students and Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy (where Ars alumnus Tim Lee currently hangs his hat) have broken the music industry’s SDMI encryption scheme, filed a lawsuit...
Read more →Please don’t do this. Even with USB drives not stuck in a wall. Just don’t do it. Across New York, there are USB drives embedded in walls, buildings and curbs. The idea is to create an anonymous, offline file-sharing network in public space. The drives are completely public and anyone can plug in to...
Read more →photo credit: bsabarnowl Think you cleared all the offline data from your browser? Think again. Where things really get grim is with the mobile version of Safari. Although this version of Safari doesn’t support Flash or Silverlight, the directories it uses to hold local storage are sandboxed off from all other applications, and there...
Read more →Toyota recalls 1.53 million vehicles. Surprised? Shouldn’t be. Next time, Sec. LaHood should stick to his guns. Toyota is putting garbage on the road.
Read more →From BBC News: Bacteria taken from cliffs at Beer on the South Coast have shown themselves to be hardy space travellers. The bugs were put on the exterior of the space station to see how they would cope in the hostile conditions that exist above the Earth’s atmosphere. And when scientists inspected the microbes...
Read more →Depressing. The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, and this summer its sea ice is melting at a near-record pace. The sun is heating the newly open water, so it will take longer to refreeze this winter, and the resulting thinner ice will melt more easily next summer....
Read more →Soccer. Boxing. Football. Players of these sports are affected by ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) at much higher rates than the general population. Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel correspondent Bernie Goldberg profiles researchers who may have found a link between concussions and ALS.
Read more →Not even kidding: Tom Junod recounts what it was like to have an ant colony take over his family’s home. And yet the numbers aren’t the worst part. The worst part is the intelligence of the numbers. A few years ago, I interviewed the great biologist E. O. Wilson right before he and his...
Read more →The G1 is over. Read Requiem for the G1.
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