The Biggest, Baddest Crash You’ve Never Heard Of
Somewhere in the Amazon jungle is the wreckage of a big, bad red jet. It was 1956 and the US Air Force was testing the Snark cruise missiles. Nothing quite like the Snark had ever been built before, or...
View ArticleSkeptical thoughts on the future of the Music Industry
An article by U2 manager Paul McGuinness on music piracy is drawing many sceptical comments … nearly all of them disparaging. To cut a long story short: the piece is a description of efforts to make...
View ArticleTen Failed Technology Predictions
Every generation has certain technological breakthroughs as well as detractors who say they will never catch on. I personally have yet to watch any 3D programming on the new 3D TV that our family...
View ArticleFlying Car o’ the Day
Aerospace nuts know that my friend Burt Rutan, creator of SpaceShipOne, SpaceShipTwo, the circumnavigating Voyager and GlobalFlyer, the ubiquitous Long-EZ and many other famous aircraft, has recently...
View ArticleAnother Ten Failed Technology Predictions
History has given us numerous examples of failed technology predictions by those who should have known better…many more than could be contained in one list of ten examples. Therefore, I present to you...
View ArticleYet Another Ten Failed Technology (or Science) Predictions
At the risk of boring our readers with more of the same, I offer to you yet another ten failed technology predictions. It seems you all enjoy reading this kind of thing as much as I enjoy writing it....
View ArticleWeb Browsers for Dummies (Updated)
AptiQuant Psychometric Consulting Company in Vancouver has made some waves this week, by announcing the results of a large trial in which they compared IQ scores to choice of web browser software....
View ArticleGoogle Lunar X Prize
The Space Shuttle has completed her final mission and returned to earth safely. Now it is on to the next chapter of the space race. The Google Lunar X Prize is leading the way by offering a total of...
View ArticleA Not-Very-Smart Debate on Smart Meters
This morning I had the pleasure of going on the Bill Good show with guest host Mike Smyth at CKNW radio in Vancouver, Canada. Many Canadians are concerned about possible health effects from wi-fi and...
View ArticleCell Phones Don’t Raise Cancer Risk for Kids
A research study, published Wednesday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, states that children and adolescents who use cell phones are at no greater risk of developing brain cancer than...
View Articlei.am FIRST and Popularizing Science
This evening my kids and I watched i.am FIRST — Science is Rock and Roll. It was a special telecast of Dean Kamen’s annual FIRST robotics competition for kids, augmented with the contributions of...
View ArticleNew Meaning of “MPG”
Move over “miles per gallon”, make room for “miles per gator”. As we are all too painfully aware, fossil fuels (gas, oil, natural gas, coal) are in short supply and are getting increasing more...
View ArticleBroken Mustangs
Fans of aviation and the families of the dead and injured are mourning the September 16, 2011 crash of Jimmy Leeward’s Galloping Ghost at the National Air Races in Reno, Nevada. Ten were killed...
View ArticleScience Fiction Predictions That Came True
Today it is not all that uncommon to be shopping at your local Wal-Mart and see items that could only be found in science fiction movies just a few years ago (3D TV I’m looking at you). Science and...
View ArticleThe Bicycle Riding Robot
Created by engineer Masahiko Yamaguchi, this awesome little fellow rides around on a bicycle: Yamaguchi built the simple single-speed bicycle himself, and the robot is actually a commercially available...
View ArticleMysterious Space Balls from Above
Space.com is reporting that a mysterious metal ball has fallen from the sky and slammed into the ground in a remote area of Namibia. It created a crater 1 foot deep and 12 feet across. Despite this...
View ArticleThe End of the World pt 2: Algorithms
The End of the World pt 2: Algorithms Let’s start with a list of predictions. No, not the kind involving a crystal ball and a woman called Mme Arcady who claims to be able to see a tall dark stranger …...
View ArticleDying to Work at Foxconn
Thousands of people recently lined up hoping for a job at Foxconn in China, the company that assembles high-tech gadgets such as the iPhone and iPad for Apple and other companies. The article mentions...
View ArticleWhy Are Eco-Facists Trying to Ban Incandescent Bulbs?
My feelings are split over how I feel about the United States Congress delaying their phase out of incandescent light bulbs here in the good old U S of A. They will be effectively banned beginning in...
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