“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end” - Seneca   Hi loyal peeps & tweeps!   Unless something untoward and ske...

"Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an Ame...

Someone came up with a device that will evaporate ink jet ink with a pulsed laser, thereby “unprinting” the paper.

"For a guy who doesn't keep a computer on his desk for security reasons, Barack Obama is fairly bullish on the use of technology. B...

“According to John Gartner, a hypomania expert at Johns Hopkins, "Hypomanics are brimming with infectious energy, irrational confidenc...

This is a young FDR, walking in the Navy ship yards during the construction of a ship he would later have to eulogize: The battleship Arizo...

“When [Floyd] had tired of official reports, memoranda and minutes, he would plug his foolscap-sized Newspad into the ship’s information ci...

Here’s how to get a computer to output the words “Hello, world!” using two popular computer languages: In Java: class Hello {         ...

“Apple stock catapulted to new heights on Thursday, breaching the $600 barrier for the first time in the company's history as investors...

“Think of something that makes you smile”   And then   “Give yourself permission”   Well then.

Is this some kind of alien fashion from a Star Wars dignitary? No, it’s just a Liberace Christmas outfit from the 80’s.

It has been printed for 244 years straight. Encyclopaedia Brittanica is still a fantastic reference, the best there is. But the second you ...

 

A guy who I work with is having back surgery soon. Being an engineer, he knows the whole procedure that the surgeon will use and tells anyo...

Happy Pi Day. One of my heroes and one of the greatest minds of all time, Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan came up with this series...

Fast Company: Apple is one of the few companies that treats celebrities, sports stars, and authors like normal human beings. Fast Company sp...

 

 

"The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) zeroed in on Mare Tranquillitatis, or the Sea of Tranquility - the place where humans first tou...

15 Years ago, an IBM supercomputer called “Deep Blue” beat world chess champion Gary Kasparov. Deep Blue was about the size of a refrigerat...

Q: What are your goals when setting out to build a new product? A: Our goals are very simple — to design and make better products. If we c...

 

“What I dislike most about Twitter is finishing a good tweet, having -1 characters left and having to decide which grammar crime to commit....

 

Tweets per minute containing the word “iPad” during the Apple keynote Wednesday.

“Unchecked Supper PAC fundraising and spending has resulted in an increasingly divisive political climate, with 54 percent of all money spe...

from Daring Fireball :   Tim Cook's closing remarks at the iPad launch yesterday:   “Only Apple could deliver this kind of innovati...

This is James Cameron's new toy, a one-man (him) submarine with a working depth that will allow it to go anywhere in the ocean - even do...

“After experimenting on protozoa, rats, and his eight children…”

"Road-Kill Squirrel Remembered As Frantic, Indecisive"

"No one with daughters the age of Sandra Fluke, and I have two, could possibly abide the insult and abuse heaped upon this courageous ...

"While rumors of iPad 3 shipments already being en route having been circulating for some time now, we're now hearing from shipping...

 

China Mobile is the world's largest telephone company, by far. They've currently got 655 million active subscribers. That's more...

“A Norman Rockwell Painting, ‘The Problem We All Live With’, which depicts a powerful image from the civil rights struggle, has been hung o...

Sweet car.

There’s a scene in Fantastic Mr. Fox where the son Ash, constantly bested by his do-no-wrong cousin Kristofferson, can’t take it anymore an...

Brooke was helping Heather fold laundry today... Mommy: Thanks for helping me woman! Brookie: Don't call me that, that's not nice!!!...

Obama is not a brown-skinned, anti-war socialist who gives away free healthcare. You're thinking of Jesus. -- John Fugelsang

GigaOM founder Om Malik gave his iPad 2 to his mother in India so she could FaceTime with her grandson: "It didn't matter how it wa...

 

Illinois was hit with an EF4 (preliminary rating) tornado this week, which killed 6 people and did untold millions in damages. Here’s what...

"Because Florida is running out of unique ways to embarrass itself, a 26-year old meth enthusiast set fire to and destroyed the world...

'Text message autocorrect may not often lead to more than mildly comical mishaps, but today one instance of an unintended correction spr...

"Justin Bieber stole my haircut and Axl Rose stole my dance moves!" -Davy Jones

"It turns out that T. rex's physical size might not have been the only thing we underestimated. A new study suggests that the king ...

From the NPR Ethics Handbook: At all times, we report for our readers and listeners, not our sources. So our primary consideration when pr...

I usually hate advice columns but this lady's question is so incredibly medieval that I love the smackdown answer she gets. Q.  Pregnant...

"Does the size of your bank account influence how ethically you behave? A new study out this week from the University of California, Be...

The Artist is the first silent movie to win best picture in 83 years. I haven’t seen it yet but I’ve heard it’s really good. And I am a fan...

Asked by the AP reporter if he follows NASCAR, Romney responded, "Not as closely as some of the most ardent fans. But I have some great...

I went yesterday to Zach’s consultation appointment at the orthodontist. My gosh has that field changed since I had my braces. Gone are the...

"A lot of effort goes into manufacturing condoms that are comfortable and effective, but that doesn't do anyone any good if no one ...

GOP: Thinking everyone should be able to go to college: snob. Thinking my religion should decide if you get birth control: freedom.

“1561: French surgeon Ambroise Paré publishes La méthode curative des playes et fractures de la teste humaine, or Treatment method for woun...

The future of farming chickens?   “André Ford has presented a very radical solution increase the efficiency and humaneness in raising pou...

The world of quantum computing is getting closer every month. IBM is running algorithms on experimental devices such as this that can tap i...

“ Speaking at the launch of new enterprise hardware at an event in Twickenham, West London today, the president of Dell’s enterprise solut...

“Internet speeds in six East African countries will be unexpectedly throttled for up to two weeks after a ship erroneously anchored in rest...

“An Indiana lawmaker who opposes celebrating the centennial anniversary of the Girl Scouts of America says the group ‘sexualizes’ young gir...

Geordie Rose has a Ph.D. in quantum physics, and he’s also a world champion in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, a Canadian national champion wrestler, ...

Born today in 1918. The tallest person ever recorded at 1 inch shy of 9 feet. He only lived to age 22 and was still growing furiously at th...

"Russian scientists say they've revived a plant that had been tucked away by an arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago on the tund...

 

I know ever since my James Webb Space Telescope article you’ve been wondering what a Lagrange point orbit really looks like.   Here are a...

"You know, back in my days, they used Bayer aspirin for contraception. The gals put it between their knees, and it wasn't that cos...

For sure this must be the most difficult Foursquare badge to get…you can only snag it if you check-in at the International Space Station. ...

“A new study suggests that people who follow a Mediterranean-style diet have less small blood vessel damage in the brain.” Not even sure w...

 

Brooke was watching Cosmos with me last night (yeah, it’s still good). She looked at Sagan and said:   “He still got his work clothes on!...

Brooke said this right before she fell asleep last night, referring to the back scratcher that I don't let her play with because it'...