New NYPD Infrared Gun Scanner to Find Concealed Weapons

The New York Police Department is teaming up with the Pentagon to create an infrared gun scanner to detect weapons and suicide bomber vests through clothing. Technology is once again working its way forward. NYPD and...

China Sending Men to the Moon to Build a Lunar iPad Factory

Beijing -- China has revealed the purpose of its manned missions to the moon. The Chinese want to construct their next electronics assembly plant there as the first step toward using the moon as a manufacturing...

Luddites and Global Warming

In 19th century England there was a group known as the Luddites who protested against technological development out of the belief that it would cost people their jobs. They have been proven wrong; technological development instead has created vast prosperity and better...

Make War and Money: Innovate!

By Sam VakninAuthor of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" War and money confer an evolutionary advantage on Mankind by spurring innovation: hence their ubiquity. Attempts to foster creativity and genius via state largesse, the education system, and bolstering ...

the new magicJack

Somewhere around April '10 i wrote Dan, the inventor of majicJack, about the following idea. Because of my background in telecommunications, i suggested he modify the jack to be able to plug directly into your...

The fusion of science and technology

The future of science is bright. Our understanding of all branches of science is rapidly advancing, partly attributable to the increased availability of technology, fundamental to scientific research. From the improvement of general laboratory equipment such as microscopes...

Private Education - A Bad Idea?

By Sam VakninAuthor of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited"I am not too impressed with the level of public education. But is private education the solution? In economics textbooks, education often appears as a "public good." Contrary to common misconceptions,...

10 illnesses brought on by our addiction to modern technology

If you're the sort of person who spends more time texting than talking, be warned - you could even be doing it in your sleep. People leading busy lives are often unable to switch off at night and end up picking...

Israeli’s Detect Lung Cancer In Breath & Sludge into Electricity

By Gene Ostrovsky of medgadget.  A researcher collaboration between scientists at University of Colorado–Denver and Technion–Israel Institute of Technology has successfully tested a gold nanoparticle (GNP)-based sensor that can detect lung cancer (LC) markers in a...

Al Gore and Technological Progress

In his book "Earth in the Balance," Al Gore wrote that the people who weredenying the global warming in 1980s were going to be penitent later for whatthey had done. He made an error common to humanitarians: Of overestimating people's character. As it stands, these people...

Buzzfeed: Outrageous Paypal Scam Exposed

Paypal thought they could sweep one more small business owner's money under the rug, but they just made things a lot worse.After an online store owner upgraded to Paypal's Virtual Terminal Service for telephone orders, he was automatically placed into a “Rolling Reserve...

Modern Hagiography: Steven Jobs and Recep Tayyip Erdogan

By Sam VakninAuthor of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" Steven Jobs had one important insight in his entire life: that people are imbeciles and should be treated as such. Prior to this epiphany, this college dropout had failed in everything he had done and...

Steve Jobs' Death Draws Reaction from President Obama, Bill Gates

News of Steve Jobs' death spread quickly yesterday, as people worldwide mourned the loss of the greatest visionary in recent memory. And even President Barack Obama felt the sting of loss as he issued a statement to share his feelings about the late...

Stopping American assets from a give-away to China

Senator Jim Webb, still at work He may be leaving the Senate, but he is still working and paying attention while many of his colleagues are caught up in the no-and-do-nothing machine. Would you not expect an...

Nature, Science and Psychology in Economics

Nature in Economics The economic process involves and affects a large number of aspects. While classical economics is concerned mostly with the entrepreneur, other economists have emphasized other economic...

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