Technology

The USDA Organic certification was a mandate from the Clinton administration to create a way for his constituents in the organic food space to market their product as distinct from conventional food.…

Happy birthday to the World Wide Web, born on this day in 1991 with absolutely no attention. It was instead just a post in the alt.hypertext newsgroup.  Image…

A populist campaign has built up around data centers and their impact on rural areas but, like with claims that natural gas and coffee cause cancer, they are lawyer-driven rather than scientific.…

Modern spiritualism began as a religious movement in the 19th century. It promised to bring the living and dead together in conversation, usually through a medium – a person who claimed an ability to…

Recent reports have shown that advanced AI agents developed by OpenAI and Anthropic can escape their evaluation sandboxes and interact with real-world systems when given sufficiently capable cyber…

Vascular Solutions, LLC, has been given U.S. Food and Drug Authority authorization for its Ezplaz Freeze Dried Plasma for transfusion in adults. Beginning in 2017, Public Law 115-92 made it possible…

Friends of the Earth was famously started by an anti-nuclear activist who believed his employer, Sierra Club, did not hate science enough. You read that right. Sierra Club, founded by a rabid…

Anthropologists tell us that only a handful of human experiences can be found in all human cultures. Among them is the experience of friendship. It might have different expressions in different times…

We're bombarded with information at all times, so much that if we had to try and process it all times, we'd be paralyzed. Our cerebellum does information damage control by filtering out what changes.…

If you are Gen X and want to feel old, here is some good news. The soundtrack for the original "Doom" video game has been enshrined by the Library of Congress. In 1993, I played "The Terminator:…