Technology
Paul Root Wolpe – Ethical Boundaries For Bio-Tech
by Nick Glossop on March 29, 2013
Paul Root Wolpe, of Emory University, does not spend much time making an argument for clear ethical boundaries for the conduct of bio-technology, rather he just lists off some of the more startling greatest hits of the field, and the argument more or less makes itself: bio-luminescent monkeys, bug-bots, robo-rats, animals as donor part farms (mouse ears), computer chips comprised of self-aggregated rat neurons, creatures with neural implants that …
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Space Flight And The Big Awe
by Nick Glossop on February 20, 2013
OVERVIEW from Planetary Collective on Vimeo.
On the 40th anniversary of the famous ‘Blue Marble’ photograph taken of Earth from space, Planetary Collective presents a short film documenting astronauts’ life-changing stories of seeing the Earth from the outside – a perspective-altering experience often described as the Overview Effect.
The Overview Effect, first described by author Frank White in 1987, is an experience that transforms astronauts’ perspective of the planet
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Compressorhead ~ Ace Of Spades
by Nick Glossop on January 6, 2013
No Sleep ‘Til… …well, just no sleep
Compressorhead is:
Stickboy (drums) was created to exacting specifications. 4 arms, 2 legs, 1 head, no brain. he plays a Pearl 14 piece kit with double kick. stickboy junior, the bastard child of an unknown mother takes control of the hihat shuffle. inception date 2007
Fingers (guitar) joined stickboy in 2009 and brings 78 purpose built fingers, enough to play the entire fret
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Bye-Bye Batteries
by Nick Glossop on December 25, 2012
The Super Supercapacitor | Brian Golden Davis from Focus Forward Films on Vimeo.
THE SUPER SUPERCAPACITOR is a Finalist in the $200,000 FOCUS FORWARD Filmmaker Competition and is in the running to become the $100,000 Grand Prize Winner. It could also be named an Audience Favorite if it’s among the ten that receives the most votes. If you love it, vote for it. Click on the VOTE button in
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NASA Spacecrafts To Deliberately Crash Into Moon
by Nick Glossop on December 17, 2012
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The Coal Window ~ Energy, Democracy, And The General Strike
by Nick Glossop on October 16, 2012
The excellent podcast Electric Politics recently played host to Dr. Timothy Mitchell who was there to discuss Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil. Amongst other things, his book provides a novel and provocative interpretation of modern political history with the primacy of energy source in its view. The near universal reliance on coal, he argues, heavily labor-intensive coal, furnished the concentrated, politically-organizable heft for democratizing challenges …
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Sapien Cinema: We Are Legion
by Nick Glossop on September 24, 2012
#anonymous,
#arabspring,
#/b,
#bandwidthrape,
#bradleymanning,
#chanology,
#ddos,
#hacktivism,
#julianassange,
#loworbitioncannon,
#lulz,
#moralfag,
#sevrynsten,
#trolling,
#virtualsitin,
#wikileaks
We’re from the Internet.
Presented here in its entirety, We Are Legion is a vastly entertaining history of hacktivism from Brian Knappenberg. (Featuring Aaron Barr as not-Sevrynsten.)
After the break he discusses the making of the film. …
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A Short History Of The Physics Of Nearly Everything
by Nick Glossop on August 31, 2012
Michio Kaku delivers the Universe in a Nutshell and provides an entertaining thumbnail sketch of the history of physics, from Aristotle to the sparticles. And while you are enjoying the lecture, you might as well contemplate this recently released image of the transit of Titan across Saturn as captured by the Cassini probe.
As the seasons have changed in the Saturnian system, and spring has come to the north and
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The Onion: New Toyota Prius so Green it Kills
by Andrew Loewen on August 14, 2012
New Prius Helps Environment By Killing Its Owner…
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Canada Succumbs To Drone Envy
by Nick Glossop on August 7, 2012
Canadian military intends to spend $1 billion on armed drones
Senior Canadian defence leaders pitched the idea of spending up to $600 million for armed drones to take part in the Libyan war shortly before the conflict ended, according to documents obtained by the Citizen.
And while the death of Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi effectively ended the war and scuttled the Defence Department’s plans, the military has now relaunched
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The Curiosity Has Landed
by Nick Glossop on August 6, 2012
Earlier today the nuclear-powered Curiosity Rover successfully completed its 9-month space journey and touched down safely on the Red Planet. Images to be posted here as they become available.
Live screen-capture from NASA TV
What’s so special about the Curiosity?
Well for one thing, it’s the first Mars rover whose tweets you can follow. Make sure you follow the Curiosity avidly and retweet often; it requires regular infusions of trendium …
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Red Ribs
by Nick Glossop on August 6, 2012
A Slice of the Soviet Music Underground
For almost as long as rock and roll has been played in the West, it has been heard in Russia. Soviet youth received its first large infusion of Western styles and sounds during the Seventh International Festival of Youth and Students, which took place in Moscow in 1957: “Thousands of real live young foreigners flooded into virginal Moscow. Among them were Jazz musicians,
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