Panix is Stolen!
The Internet Service Provider Panix, which is easily more than 15 years old, has had its domain name stolen in what one insider calls "a malicious attack that has knocked the entire company off line until further notice."...
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Technology, Media, and Disability
Last month, MIT announced that MIT professor Hugh Herr, and colleagues from Brown University and the Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center have begun a five-year multidisciplinary research project to restore arm and leg function to amputees by creating “biohybrid“ limbs....
Cars That Sense Emotions
... That's what's being cooked up by the Broxburn-based firm Affective Media. Working with researchers at Edinburgh University, they've created a car that uses speech recognition to figure out if the driver is agitated or not. If you are upset,...
IPCC Dissension
A prominent member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has resigned after accusing a lead author of injecting his personal opinions into the science of global warming and hurricanes. The delightfully named Chris Landsea submitted his resignation from...
Wisconsin Professors Report on Growing Use of Games
According to this report recently published by three professors at the University of Wisconsin, immersive games are increasingly being used as training tools for "skilled professionals and leaders."The report also notes that the $10 billion-a-year gaming industry has already surpassed...
From Stephen to Zithromax
A fascinating story in The Harvard Crimson details a rather shocking security lapse in which "the confidential drug purchase histories of many Harvard students and employees have been available for months to any internet user, as have the e-mail addresses...
Fundraising & TV
Amid all the coverage of the Tsunami and its consequences, viewers around the world have been moved by the images of devastation, loss and displacement. Many thousands have been sufficiently moved to subsequently make phone or postal donations, or simply...
Quantum Diaries
2005 is the hundred year anniversary of Einstein's annus mirabilis (miracle year), in which he published five notable papers, any one of which would have made a name for himself. In honor of the anniversary, particle physics laboratories around the...
Environmental Sustainability
The United States comes in a mediocre 45th in a just-released ranking of environmental sustainability, out of 146 countries. Finland, Norway, Uruguay, Sweden, and Iceland took the top five spots, with their high scores attributed to "substantial natural resource endowments,...
Venus Flytraps
Venus flytraps are just plain cool -- Darwin called the plant "one of the most wonderful in the world." But how do they snap shut so quickly? Scientists have mostly answered the question in a report in this week's issue...
