Scientists at the Vatican support so-called genetically modified crops but the head of the Catholic Church's science advisors has now said that the statement does not represent an official Church endorsement - only 18% of the scientists present agreed with the endorsement though, to be fair, that is many more than the 2% of astronomers who determined Pluto is not a planet.Given the recent endorsement of condom use, where the Church is now for it unless it is against it, and subsequent clarifications, means Catholics have a crisis of communication these days.
What is the totalitarian solution to young people spending too much time on the Internet? An Internet 'curfew' forcing them off. The proposed "Cinderella" ban would make it illegal for Internet service providers to allow online gaming access to users under the age of 16 between the hours of midnight and 6AM. How will that be determined? Government snooping, of course.
One day a year you can talk about dark meat and huge breasts without getting yelled at by your significant other.Here are 15 other things you can only say on Thanksgiving and not get funny looks.
There's no denying Farmville on Facebook made gaming mainstream - your grandmother plays it, and so I am not knocking it. It's cool enough and strategic enough and addictive enough, sure...but it is not complicated. You can figure it out.
I'll be honest, I actually have been offered millions for Science 2.0. Why not take it? Well, I had to have that discussion with my wife, as you can imagine, but it felt wrong to have called up a lot of well-known scientists and told them we were going to change how science got to the public and implemented in policies and then suddenly announce, sorry, I got a check so I am out of here.
Eating a high cholesterol diet is not going to harm your brain but eating a chronic high cholesterol diet can, according to researchers from the Laboratory of Psychiatry and Experimental Alzheimers Research at the Medical University Innsbruck in the journal Molecular Cellular Neuroscience.Like many things, it can even be implicated in Alzheimer's.
As a young guy, one of the most fascinating aspects of World War II to me was the breaking of the Enigma Code. Codebreaker Alan Turing created the machine at Bletchley Park in 1939 and it truly swung the tide, allowing an English military inferior in every way to best the Nazi war machine time and again. Recently, his papers, including his pioneering work on artificial intelligence and the foundations of the digital computer, were up for auction but failed to meet the minimum price at Christie's today - 300,000 British pounds.
In which state is it illegal to set a mouse trap without a hunting license? If you said California because you always say California regarding goofy laws, you're right, but this time California is not alone.In Florida, if you leave your elephant tied to a parking meter, they will fine you just like they would a car and in Maryland Randy Newman's song ‘Short People' can't be played on radios.See the entire list at Lunch.com
John Yan, editor at GamingNexus.com, has a son with autism and parents of kids with autism want to find things that can help little ones engage with the world around them. Where a PS3 and a regular Xbox were not much use for a little guy who can't use the controllers very well, Yan says he took to the Kinect right away.
Using libfreenect Kinect drivers and ofxKinect, these two made their Microsoft Xbox Kinect system do skeleton tracking on the arm and determine where the shoulder, elbow, and wrist is to control the movement and posture of a giant funky bird.Instead hand puppetry for cool kids.
