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Muzak Vibes in the Elevator of Life
(via) It's a cold February morning in 1937. It's going to be a long day of mind-numbing, repetitive work at the factory, but with the global economy going the way it is, anyone pushing a broom in a...
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This Moth-Powered Robot Is a Step Towards Automatons That Mimic Life
Replicating nature's various noses is an impressively difficult task. If sniffing bots are to replace environmental monitors and drug dogs in the future, they'll have to clear a pair of major hurdles....
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Every Two Megawatts of Wind Power in Your County Create One Job and Make You...
Robots are obviously going to steal your job, for better or for worse. Sorry. And IT companies like Facebook and Google aren't going to bring them back--but wind farms might. Renewable energy sources,...
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America's Rules for Drone-Killing Americans are More Torturous than America...
It's already been a very intriguing week in war news. It all started when a group of 11 senators from both sides of the aisle sent President Obama a very simple request. They wanted to see "any and...
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The First Floating Solar Power Labs Will Be Built in a Swiss Lake By the End...
We've got giant desert solar plants, rooftop installations galore, and concentrated solar systems that melt salt to store power--but our solar doesn't do a whole lot of floating yet. In August, it...
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Meet Wisdom, an Albatross that Miraculously Hatched a Chick at Age 62
Wisdom (left) says hello to her mate as it incubates the egg that's just hatched in this photo from November 29, 2012. Via Fish and Wildlife Pacific's Flickr When you're 62, you'll probably be...
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This Year, More Japanese Tsunami Debris Will Wash Up on U.S. Shores Than Ever...
When the tragedy-bearing tsunami slammed into Japan in 2011 the fallout was felt all around the world, figuratively and literally. The crisis that unfolded at Fukushima led to a globe-spanning...
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We've Only Seen Nine Comets During the Day
Kreutz sungrazer-class Comet Lovejoy photographed December 22, 2011, at the European Southern Observatory in Chile. via In November, Comet ISON is going to pass close enough to the sun that we’ll see...
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Drones Might Have a Congress Problem
(via) When he takes the hot seat on Thursday for what should be a grilling by the Senate Intelligence Committee, John Brennan is going to have some explaining to do. As Obama's top counterterrorism...
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How Silicon Valley Could Save (or Delete) Education
Our college education system is busted. State universities are horribly underfunded and the elite destinations are just that, elite -- and even those top schools are struggling with rising costs and...
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How to Make a Game in 2013: Go Make a Game
Over the past few weeks I’ve been talking a lot about how to make a game this year. All over the indie scene and across the game industry writ large, people are getting more and more excited over the...
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In the Post-Work Economy, the New Monopoly Token Should Have Been the Robot
In a bid to sell more of the games that everyone already owns, Hasbro took to social media to decided what traditional Monopoly piece would get the axe, and what would replace it. The new options...
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Who Our New Austerity-Driven Postal Service Hurts Most
Bad news, delivery enthusiasts: The United States Postal Service is going to stop delivering first-class mail on Saturdays. That means no letters, no cards, no magazines, no catalogs, no bills — the...
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Dream Sculptor Tony Conrad Builds a Prison for Art
Have I ever told you that the best show I've ever been to was Tony Conrad performing on violin and guitar at the High Zero improv music festival in Baltimore? No? It was amazing, and eventually led to...
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Here’s a Map of America's High Speed Rail System in the Year Two Thousand and...
One day, in the not-so-distant imaginary future, the United States will be linked by a network of high-speed rail. We’ll zip from L.A. to Denver in five hours, from D.C. to New York in two, and we’ll...
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Sitting on Your Ass Is Not What Evolution Intended
Not helping human evolution because, among other reasons, his sperm count is probably low. Image via CourtneyLuv.com If only our human forebears and early ancestors could see us now. All that work...
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Trying to Make Friends Over Blind Text Messages
(From vice.com) In what I’m sure is a stupid move, I agreed to join this service. The idea of it is they set you up with a text-message pen pal, but really they probably just want to sell your cell...
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Fracking is Now the No. 2 Contributor to Global Warming in the U.S.
Congratulations, fracking. Everyone’s favorite oil-n-gas-grubbing, chemical cocktail-blasting extravaganza is officially the No. 2 driver of sea-rising civilizational decline this side of the...
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How Your Ears Do Math Better Than Mathematicians
When you listen to music, when its waves of sound collide with your ear, you don't hear a wall of sound. A great deal of information might travel in a sound wave and, if that sound wave were actually...
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MI5 Wants to Watch What Everybody's Doing Online
The British government loves surveillance. In fact, British people generally love watching what other British people are doing when they're not looking. A few years ago, a group of academics described...
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