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March 2013

March 14, 2013

Medal for drone warriors

The military has instituted a new medal, the Distinguished Warfare Medal, to honor great deeds...

March 11, 2013

Wanted: A married couple to fly to Mars

A private space venture is seeking a married couple to take a 501-day space flight,...

March 11, 2013

American factions are coming together over drones

It has been said that America is polarized politically, but now an issue has emerged...

March 08, 2013

The drone filibuster

Attorney General Eric Holder said that drones could be used against American citizens on American...

February 2013

February 25, 2013

How to dodge a drone

Al-Qaeda is circulating a list of 22 techniques to thwart drone attacks--ones experts say are...

February 20, 2013

Unchecked righteousness

Charles Lane of the Washington Post comments on the electric car fiasco, discussing the multiple...

February 16, 2013

The asteroid feint & the meteor punch

The universe did to the earth what a boxer does to his chump opponent, feinting...

January 2013

January 25, 2013

North Korea threatens to nuke America

Still-Communist North Korea says that it will not only continue to develop its nuclear weapons...

January 22, 2013

Having a Neanderthal baby

A Harvard geneticist is seeking a woman to be the surrogate mother of a Neanderthal...

January 21, 2013

Relationships with virtual human beings

You have probably heard about Manti Te'o, Notre Dame's Heisman Trophy candidate, whose dying girlfriend...

December 2012

December 06, 2012

Suing negative reviewers

You know those user reviews on online sites like Yelp, Angie's List, Yahoo, and all...

November 2012

November 26, 2012

The Iron Dome

Hamas has been firing rockets and missiles into Israel, sparking Israeli retaliation. The two sides...

November 23, 2012

Democrats have a file on you

One of the reasons President Obama was re-elected, according to observers, is the way his...

November 21, 2012

Steam without boiling water

Engineers at Rice have devised an ingenious process that allows the generation of steam without...

September 2012

September 24, 2012

The boundary between work and home

A growing number of companies are telling employees to stop using electronics to work even...

August 2012

August 29, 2012

Pinch to zoom

If you have a smart phone, can you pinch your fingers together while touching the...

August 03, 2012

Sunday’s landing on Mars

Remember those spunky little rovers that were landed on Mars, sending back pictures of the...

July 2012

July 27, 2012

You can watch EVERY Olympics event

Are you psyched up about the Olympics, which starts this weekend, with the opening ceremonies...

July 18, 2012

How teenagers buy music today

The music industry is struggling because so much of its product can be accessed for...

July 17, 2012

Amazon’s same DAY delivery

We blogged earlier about how online shopping sites have a big advantage over local businesses...

July 12, 2012

If you have no electricity, check your computer

My nomination for the Pulitzer Prize for letters to the editor, if there were such...

July 11, 2012

The internet sales tax bill

The old complaint was that big corporate retailers like Wal-Mart and Borders were putting the...

July 02, 2012

Coming back to the power outage

When we came into our house after our vacation, we found that our technology fast...

June 2012

June 12, 2012

Obama’s data mining

Yesterday we posted about mining "big data," how corporations, politicians, and researchers are delving into...

June 11, 2012

Mining “big data”

An interesting article by Ariana Eunjung Cha on how financiers, politicians, and researchers are mining...

June 08, 2012

The history of air conditioning

Washington, D.C., turns into a sweltering swamp in the summer. It has been said that...

June 06, 2012

Hacking into the rest of our technology

One of those darn kids invented a monster. It is called Shodan. And it threatens...

May 2012

May 30, 2012

Royal blood for America

A vial of Ronald Reagan's blood was going to be auctioned online. After a time...

May 23, 2012

New online classical Lutheran school

One of the promising developments in homeschooling is the advent of on-line courses. Parents can...

April 2012

April 23, 2012

The new religion of Kopimism

A new religion, born of the internet age, is seeking legal recognition: A Swedish religion...