Technology

Arbo-Architecture: Literally Green Building Is A Tower Made From Living Trees

Members of the Research Group Baubotanik at the Institute of Theory of Modern Architecture and Design (University of Stuttgart) have been focusing on the idea of living plant constructions- that's right, towers made from trees. Recently their first “b ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 25 2009 - 10:13pm

Steaming To Success

Steaming To Success A hundred year old steam car speed record has just been broken by a British team.  Edward’s Air Force Base, California: Tuesday August 25th: Today at 8.19am (California time) Charles Burnett III successfully broke the land speed record ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Aug 26 2009 - 10:27am

DeathRiskRankings.com- Find Out Just How Much Time You Have Left

Worried that your cold revenge plans won't come to fruition before you shake off that mortal coil?  A new Web site, www.DeathRiskRankings.com, developed by researchers and students at Carnegie Mellon University, says they can help you plan your sched ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 26 2009 - 3:11pm

What You Need To Know When Using Public Wi-Fi Networks

Someone recently sent me a Fox News article from about a month ago. It’s about risks of using public networks, specifically wireless ones — while the issue isn’t limited to wireless, few people wire themselves in any more. The newest trend in Internet fra ...

Article - Barry Leiba - Aug 31 2009 - 10:12am

Multiple Online Identities

Who are you?  Who are you online?  Are you the same to everyone?  Should you be? There's been a lot of talk about Google Wave as a new communications paradigm.  I like Wave.  I also think it's retro, harkening back to Nelson and Engelbart's ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Aug 28 2009 - 1:58pm

Bloggy Goes Cosmic? With Project Calliope, Science 2.0 Enters The Space Race

The secret is out; there's only one science blogging site out there with its name on a satellite and it is us. Well, so far it is us.    The commies in Star City were first into space but the good ol' US of A put a man on the moon and that's ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 17 2015 - 8:17pm

Would Sherlock Holmes Have Used A Video Game To Understand People?

Sherlock Holmes used a variety of tools  to deduce what he needed to know about people in general and criminals in specific.    It turns out he could learn a lot by how people act in a virtual reality setting playing a form of 'hide and seek', sa ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 1 2009 - 12:21pm

Look Ahead Sensor: It's Science Versus Smugglers- Guess Who Wins?

Idaho National Laboratory engineer Phillip West holds a curious metallic device about as wide as a steering wheel. It looks a bit like a flat, stoic face, with two large circular holes for eyes, protruding cylindrical ears and a long, disc-ended snout.  &q ...

Article - Mike Wall - Sep 2 2009 - 7:19pm

More Privacy Issues With Web Browsing

A couple of years ago, I talked about some of the search terms that people have used when they’ve found my blog pages. In the comments, Donna was amazed at the information that’s available to the web sites you visit. My response to Donna’s comment discuss ...

Article - Barry Leiba - Sep 3 2009 - 11:25am

FrankenCamera- Will This Open Source Technology Revolutionize Photography?

Stanford scientists say they will reinvent digital photography with the introduction of an 'open-source' digital camera. If the technology catches on, camera performance will be no longer be limited by the software that comes pre-installed by the ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 3 2009 - 3:26pm