We Can Rebuild You, We Have the Technology (1)
5/16/12 •
Recent advances in medical technology are taking us to astounding new places. As our understanding of human biology gets better and better, we will not only be able to heal the sick and disabled, but augment our senses and increase our abilities as well. Here are three technologies that promise to not only aid the [...]
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This is Your Brain on Happy (0)
5/07/12 •
Traditional psychology tends to focus on the problems of the mind, treating it like it was any other organ in the body; only paying attention to it when something went wrong. Numerous studies have been done on depression, anxiety, and phobias, but very little was known about their opposites. “I’m in a department of psychiatry, [...]
Unknown Hackers Compromise Space and Defense Agencies (0)
5/07/12 •
Unknown hackers early last week claimed to have compromised and stolen data from a range of government agencies and private organizations by alleging to have gained full administrator access to their systems, including those of space agencies, defense departments, and private international companies. NASA and the ESA have apparently confirmed their systems were indeed attacked [...]
The Little Engine That Could (Take us to Mars) (1)
5/01/12 •
In 1977, a NASA scientist named Franklin Chiang-Diaz began work on a new type of electrical propulsion system, the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket, or VASIMR engine. The engine works by using radio waves to heat a plasma of argon or krypton atoms and using magnetic fields to blast them out of the rear of [...]
Inorganic Biology (4)
4/20/12 •
One of the most burning and perplexing questions in biology today is: just what is life? While on the surface it seems obvious, the line between life and non-life is much blurrier than it seems. At the microscopic level, it becomes nearly impossible to distinguish the processes of life from other chemical reactions that are [...]
Concept Weapons of Mass Destruction (2)
4/12/12 •
World War II was brought to a screeching halt at 8:15 A.M. on August 6, 1945 when the United States debuted the world’s first weapon of mass destruction in Hiroshima. The absolute destruction of this city, and Nagasaki a few days later, were the first and last time that nuclear weapons have been used in [...]
Twitter Open Sources its MySQL Fork (0)
4/10/12 •
In sticking with the ideals of Open Source and sharing of knowledge and innovation, Twitter today has open sourced its forked MySQL database implementation which it uses in the Twitter interest graph, timelines, user data and of course the Tweets themselves (ie. pretty much all of Twitter) and released it under the new BSD license [...]
Mac OSX Flashback Trojan Botnet 600,000+ Strong (2)
4/07/12 •
Over the past couple days established security experts and firms have been slowly wrapping their head around the zero-day Mac Flashback trojan exploit which a small Russian based antivirus company brought to light mid week claiming well over 600,000 Mac OSX installs were already infected and forming a fresh new Mac OS X botnet. While [...]
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