The Asteroid Mining Future | Vol. 3 / No. 31.2
Image: NASA *** It’s probably coming sooner than you think: private companies headed out to space to grab what resources they can in our solar system’s wild wild west. But it may not be coming […]
Month: June 2016
Naturopaths Are Not Doctors, The Petition | Vol. 3 / No. 31.1
Photo: Change.org This is a good Monday, folks. Do you know why? Because former naturopath trainee turned vocal science advocate Britt Marie Hermes — author of the Naturopathic Diaries blog and outspoken critic of the snake […]
Elon Musk, The Biofuel Future, and a Universal Income Trial Run | Vol. 3 / No. 31
Photo: Heisenberg Media (2013) CC BY 2.0 Elon Musk If you were breathing and checking the internet this week, there’s a good chance you heard something about Elon Musk. Like how he plans to go to […]
What is Geo-Fencing, and Why is it Helping Make the World Terrible?
The perfect surveillance device is the one you carry yourself | Photo: Johan Larsson, CC BY 2.0 *** For the most part, I am very pro-technology. I don’t think I would have half of the friends […]
Fair Use Isn’t A Win For The Little Guy | Vol. 3 / No. 30.4
But only if you can afford to be sued | Image: Timothy Vollmer, CC BY 2.0 *** Last week, Google won the latest battle in an ongoing war against Oracle, who’ve been demanding $9 billion […]
About That Cellphone Cancer Study… | Vol. 3 / No. 30.3
Maybe don’t sleep with it? | Photo: Alex Garcia, CC BY 2.0 *** The media last week were in a kerfuffle over at new study that claims a dose-mediated response of cellphone radiation to cancer. […]