Goodbye 2014, You Were Great | Vol. 2 / No 9.1
I’ve heard too much today about how 2014 was a terrible year, so I’ve come to make the case for the opposite. Goodbye, 2014 — you were a fantastic year. And here’s why: According to […]
Month: December 2014
The Sony Hack, Tesla’s New Upgrade, and The Slow Boat to Mars | Vol. 2 / No. 9
The Sony Hack In previous weeks we’ve discussed the reasons why hackers love to hack Sony (starting with the 2005 rootkit debacle and continuing on from there — here’s a great link to an article at […]
Printing in Space, Organics on Mars, and the MPAA and Google in “Project Goliath” | Vol. 2 / No. 8
Printing in Space This week NASA announced that it had “e-mailed” a wrench to the International Space Station. Last month NASA demonstrated that the technology works in microgravity, and so this month when Commander Barry […]
Of Wikipedia and Women | Vol. 2 / No. 7.1
In this week’s #FeministFriday post, blogger Elle Irise tackles the ongoing gender disparity in the Wikipedia community. *** One could be forgiven for believing that Wikipedia is a gender-neutral place. Random people with excessive knowledge […]
Microsoft Banks on Bitcoin, We Get A Better Look at 67P, and Skeptics Clarify What the Word Skeptic Means | Vol. 2 / No. 7
Microsoft Banks on Bitcoin This week software and XBox maker Microsoft announced that it will now be taking Bitcoin as a way of buying apps for Windows, Windows Phone, and XBox. The move is seen as […]
Orion Roundup, New Horizons Wakes Up, and the Colour Photo of 67P That Wasn’t | Vol. 2 / No. 6
Orion The biggest news of the week has to be the incredibly successful first test-flight of NASA’s newest vehicle, the Orion spacecraft. After a series of delays Thursday morning (including high winds, an errant boat, […]