Aaron Swartz Arrested for MIT, JSTOR Hack Aaron Swartz, 24-year-old founder of Infogami and Demand Progress, was arrested on charges of data theft, following allegations that he broke into MIT's network to steal...
created by NowPublic Staff | 29 wks ago | updated 29 wks ago 245 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
Eye opening story showing general structure of The Military-Industrial Elite including financial, educational, energy, security 'Boards, Commissions & Institutions' are illegitimate, private enterprises which...
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A few days ago, Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation published an op-ed to the GNU project's website, in which he criticized the copyright views of the Swedish Pirate Party, which had recently succeeded...
opinion by raynevandunem | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 421 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
Many people are concerned about Steve Jobs' health. News like this come as a relief to us who have grown to love the man. May he give us more products like the Ipod and Iphone. I'm still waiting for that Kindle-killer product. " Local guy Steve Jobs, 42, a relatively unknown...
MIT scientists have developed a "light-detecting" fabric that could be transformed into clothing that can take photographs. Researchers have considered a potential application of this 'camera clothing' to be used in...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 548 views | 67 recommendations | 5 comments
It is common knowledge that in the course of every day, people are engaging in all kinds of activities and around different parts of a city. From morning until night, people travel to work, while at...
created by A. Tran | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 412 views | 24 recommendations | 2 comments
" Scientists in the United States have invented a battery that can charge in seconds, promising a revolution in power storage that could also help green cars and renewable energy. The advance allows lithium-ion...
created by nukegingrich | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 917 views | 39 recommendations | 6 comments
The economic crisis is leaving no industry, organization, or sector unscathed — and the One Laptop Per Child project is no exception. Today the project's founder Nicholas Negroponte announced that OLPC will be...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 139 views | 10 recommendations | 2 comments
Remember Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, (Paramount Pictures, 1986)?Well, in case your memory is anything like my own, recall to mind, Scotty, a persona still invoked even today when in frustration or maybe out of...
created by Emilio Lizardo | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 560 views | 28 recommendations | 11 comments
MIT Copying the leave of a plant photosynthesis system. The plant produces with sunlight sugar, to store for "night fuel"Solar cells with specified Catalysts can do the same, convertingsunlight into Hydrogen, to...
created by SOLARLIFE | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 279 views | 2 recommendations | 4 comments
Watch these videos of cell phones poping corn!Just to add another thought to the discussion, wasn't it August 2005 when the sun's magnetic shield flipped? The earth's magnetic shield is slowly shifting. I've heard it said that this will cause birds to become "confused",...
created by Maireid Sullivan | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 2467 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
A fascinating article appeared in a recent edition of Newsweek called Emotional Connections. The article describes an installation at the New York Museum of Modern Art called New York Talk Exchange. Here,...
created by andrewgrill | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 788 views | 12 recommendations | 2 comments
first i want to explain why i am against wikipedia.i also want to let people know that i am not alone.recently wikipedia was called "the largest distributed bureaucracy in the world".i am against them,...
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" MIT researchers have identified a critical link between two proteins found in brain tumors , a discovery that could eventually help treat a form of brain cancer that kills 99 percent of patients."
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"“Honestly, I’m just getting paid to hold someone’s seat,” said one person attending the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) hearing in Boston last week (on 2008-02-25). “I don’t even know...
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