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Michael Crichton, a mere science fiction novelist, has written State of Fear, a supposed countermeasure to what he sees as the scare tactics of environmentalists concerned about global warming. The climatologists at Realclimate have been taking on Crichton's false and...
Note to self: if you never see the water going out --- way out --- on the beach, it's time to run like hell.CNN has a really fascinating survivor's tale of what it's like to be caught in a tsunami...
Yahoo is, so far, standing by its policy of protecting the privacy of its email subscribers. But the policy is under attack by the parents of a Marine who was recently killed in Iraq, who want to read his email.Don't...
Get ready for the "Nintendo surgeons." That's the term Dr. James Rosser Jr. of the Advanced Medical Technologies Institute at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York has for an emerging generation of doctors trained on video games. Accoring to...
Germany is showing how to get alternative energy done. Wind and solar, combined with higher taxes on carbon fuels, all while creating jobs and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.The biggest solar energy power plant in the world just went online in...
Jeffrey Rosen has an article, Your Blog Or Mine?, in today's New York Times Magazine. The art is fun. The text, from this self-appointed master of the privacy/legal hyperplex, needs a bit more consideration...Rosen starts with the well-known story of...
The battle between the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP handheld game players just heated up again. Faced with the PSP's movie and music playback capabilities, Nintendo announced yesterday that it will be releasing an adaptor for playing MPEG-4 videos and...
Wow. Microsoft has acquired the Anti-Spyware company GIANT Company Software, Inc. They claim that GIANT is a leader in anti-spyware, but frankly I had never heard of them before. I thought that the two big products were spybot search-and-destroy and...
... or so claims San Francisco Chronicle columnist Tim Goodman, who says that the vast majority of the "indecency complaints" to the FCC this year have come from a very small and very-well-organized group called the Parent's Television Council.According to...
SCIENCE magazine is just out with its breakthrough stories of the year, and leading the way is the discovery that Mars once held vast amounts of water, found with the Martian rovers. (The rovers are still going, by the way,...
