South Korea Fails to Launch Space Rocket

South Korea Fails to Launch Space Rocket

The nation's second attempt to launch its first space rocket has failed. Minister of Education, Science and Technology Ahn Byung-man announced in a briefing on Thursday that the Naro space rocket…
Conflicts in the Former Soviet States

Conflicts in the Former Soviet States

What I don't understand is why the Former States of the Soviet Union need Russia in their affairs.  They would be much better off working together, considering that they share a language. …
H+ Summit

H+ Summit

I just arrived at the Harvard Science Center for a day of collaboration about the future. This should be an exciting day! Follow me on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/neurotechfuture
In The Brain, Your Pain Is My Gain

In The Brain, Your Pain Is My Gain

If you're thirsty and you drink, your brain feels pleasure. You feel this same pleasure, borne of satisfying a physical need, when someone you envy is brought low. We call this feeling schadenfreude…
schematics on fake eyes

schematics on fake eyes

If you take a look at a marimba, a marimba has different tones in each pad.  Also, when you hit its volume and timber is slightly differently, in a concave design that is uneven to prevent…
Suggestions for Disposable Packaging

Suggestions for Disposable Packaging

Hello, I happen to have a suggestion for graphic artists.  All of the non biodegradable plastic created by nerbs in you usual chain, doesn't exactly sell the products better than older technique…
Perfidious Albion

Perfidious Albion

Perfidious Albion Caution:  unmitigated whimsy alert! ________________________________ Perfidious Albionor what our literary heritage might have been if we had learned earlier in our history to…
60 Years Of End Of The World Sci-Fi: 1949

60 Years Of End Of The World Sci-Fi: 1949

With 1949, we arrive at one of the big classics in the post-apocalyptic genre. George Stewart’s Earth Abides is epic in both scope and ambition, a bittersweet story that captures the immense scale on…