Post Overview
-
Current Event
9 years ago+21 21 0ISIS To Obama: 'We Will Cut Off Your Head In The White House'
ISIS militants have threatened to behead Obama in the White House in a video released on Jan. 26. The video shows ISIS militants standing in the streets of Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, following an artillery barrage on the city by Kurdish ...
-
Analysis
9 years ago+17 17 0BMW Uses Frickin’ Lasers for High Beams That Don’t Blind
Conventional wisdom and legally-required safety labels have trained us to understand that we shouldn’t look directly at laser lights, lest we become blinded by their eye-searing output. That’s still almost universally true, except when it comes to BM ...
-
Analysis
9 years ago+18 18 0When T.S. Eliot Invented the Hipster
January 4th marks 50 years since the death of poet T. S. Eliot. This year also marks the 100th anniversary of one of Eliot’s most famous poems, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” the work that thrust Eliot onto the modernist stage. An embodiment ...
-
Analysis
9 years ago+14 14 0Why We Sign Up For Gym Memberships But Never Go To The Gym
Gyms take on way more members than they have space for. Here's a look at how they get us to sign up and never show up.
-
Analysis
9 years ago+21 21 0California Is About To Make Egg Production More Humane, By Giving Hens 70 Percent More Space
Starting next year, 15 million egg-laying hens in California and millions more providing out-of-state eggs to Californians will be required to have 70 percent more space — going from a minimum of 67 square inches each to nearly 116 square inches, abo ...
-
Current Event
9 years ago+17 17 0Bedbug bait and trap invented by Simon Fraser University scientists
After 180,000 bedbug bites and eight years of study, Simon Fraser University scientists say they have invented a new kind of bedbug bait and trap. The trap, which will be available commercially next year, will work by emitting a set of chemical attra ...
-
Analysis
9 years ago+8 8 0Pirate Bay Domain Back Online, Waving a Pirate Flag
After nearly two weeks of downtime the official domain of The Pirate Bay is showing signs of life. For now ThePirateBay.se is only waving a pirate flag, but that's good enough to give many Pirate Bay users hope for a full recovery. On December 9 ...
-
Expression
9 years ago+19 19 0After exploring glacier caves, hiker looks at his photos & realizes he wasn't alone
Michael Glidden was wandering the remains of a dripping glacier in the Chugach National Forest Saturday when he spotted one particularly, deep, dark tunnel, he says. The Anchorage retiree and his two American Eskimo Dogs, Shasta and Aspen, ventured i ...
-
Expression
9 years ago+14 14 0Graphene: Fast, Strong, Cheap, and Impossible to Use
Until Andre Geim, a physics professor at the University of Manchester, discovered an unusual new material called graphene, he was best known for an experiment in which he used electromagnets to levitate a frog. Geim, born in 1958 in the Soviet Union, ...
-
Analysis
9 years ago+19 19 0The U.S. Government Has a Secret System for Stalling Patents
Entrepreneurs and established companies alike depend on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to legally protect their inventions. But the Patent Office has been using a secret system to withhold the approval of some applications. Newly released docum ...
-
Analysis
9 years ago+20 20 0New technique offers spray-on solar power
Pretty soon, powering your tablet could be as simple as wrapping it in cling wrap. That’s Illan Kramer’s (ECE) hope. Kramer and colleagues have just invented a new way to spray solar cells onto flexible surfaces using miniscule light-sensitive materi ...
-
Current Event
9 years ago+17 18 1Iran moves forward with death penalty over Facebook posts
A 30-year-old blogger and photographer has been sentenced to death in Iran for "insulting the prophet of Islam" on Facebook, drawing renewed attention to the country's notorious human rights record. The man, Soheil Arabi, was convicted ...
-
Analysis
9 years ago+18 18 0New materials may change the way temperatures are regulated
AIR conditioning is a transformative technology. It has made the world’s torrid climes pleasanter to live in, and enabled the siesta-free working habits of the temperate regions to move closer to the equator. But cooling buildings takes a lot of ener ...
-
Video/Audio
9 years ago+18 18 0How to Cut Rope in an Emergency
How to cut string or rope if you haven't got a knife or a pair of scissors. Great life hack trick to help you in an emergency. Cut rope with string!
-
Analysis
9 years ago+18 18 0Amazon Reveals the Robots at the Heart of Its Epic Cyber Monday Operation
Don't tell the kiddies, but Santa's workshop isn't at the North Pole. It's here in Tracy, California, about an hour east of San Francisco, at Amazon's latest-generation warehouse, a robot-powered marvel of efficiency that in ...
-
Current Event
10 years ago+20 20 0Aeon Scientific wins 2014 Swiss Technology Award
The cardiologist sits in the control room next to the operating theatre and uses a joystick to steer a catheter through the patient’s blood vessel into the heart’s chambers to treat the cardiac arrhythmia precisely. With this robot-controlled surgica ...
-
Analysis
10 years ago+14 14 0Why It’s Impossible to Indict a Cop
It’s not just Ferguson—here’s how the system protects police.
-
Current Event
10 years ago+40 40 0 x 112-year-old killed in police-involved shooting in Cleveland
The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner has released the identity of the 12-year-old boy who died after being shot by a Cleveland police officer Saturday evening. Tamir E. Rice, 12, died Sunday, according to the medical examiner. Attorney Tim Kucharski, ...
8 comment(s) via fox8.com -
Expression
10 years ago+20 20 0What I Did After Police Killed My Son
After police in Kenosha, Wis., shot my 21-year-old son to death outside his house ten years ago — and then immediately cleared themselves of all wrongdoing — an African-American man approached me and said: “If they can shoot a white boy like a dog, i ...
-
Analysis
10 years ago+18 18 0 x 1How 3-D Printing Is Changing Medicine
It’s already being used to manufacture human tissue; could a whole organ be next? Jerome Groopman reports.