Archive for the ‘Science | Technology’ Category
The INTIMIDATOR: A Metal Puzzle That Transforms Into A .45 Caliber Muzzle Loading Pistol
Posted: 23rd August 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Science | Technology, VideosTags: caliber, gun, intimidator, loaded, muzzle, muzzle loading, pistol, puzzle
Google Invades the Privacy Rights of Users?
Posted: 19th August 2010 by Veritas in Lifestyle, Science | Technology, What the F*ck!Tags: al gore, atherton calif, bennie and the jets, ceo eric schmidt, e mail service, free storage, google, google search engine, google users, government investigators, man art, online maps, search google, selling shares, town of atherton, virtual life, web accelerator, wife tipper, wife wendy
Google CEO Eric Schmidt doesn’t reveal much about himself on his home page. But spending 30 minutes on the Google search engine lets one discover that Schmidt, 50, was worth an estimated $1.5 billion last year.
Earlier this year, he pulled in almost $90 million from sales of Google stock and made at least another $50 [...]
Scientist Begins Journey to Live as an Inuit for One Year
Posted: 17th August 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Lifestyle, Mother Nature, Science | TechnologyTags: cambridge university, dialect, dog sleds, expeditions, future generations, greenland, hunter gatherers, hunting dog, Inuit, inuit culture, inuits, journey, pax, practical knowledge, qaanaaq, scientist, sea mammals, settled population, traditional songs, university researcher
Dr Pax Leonard will live in one of the world’s most remote settlements
A Cambridge University researcher will set out on 15 August on a year-long expedition to Greenland to document the threatened Inuit culture.
Dr Stephen Pax Leonard will spend a year living with a community in Qaanaaq in the far north of the [...]
Could This Be The Ultimate Gaming Laptop?
Posted: 10th August 2010 by Simo Häyhä in Entertainment, Science | TechnologyTags: asus, games, graphics, laptop, processor, speed
Sony RayModeler, a 360-Degree Autostereoscopic Display Prototype
Posted: 29th July 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Science | Technology, VideosTags: 360, 3d, Autostereoscopic, hologram, RayModeler, sony
In the DPRK, the HTML is VERY STRONG.
Posted: 29th July 2010 by moonphrogg in Oddly Enough, Science | TechnologyTags: code, DPRK, geeks, HTML, North Korea, Strong
How strong? Head over to the Official Website for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), view the source code for the web page, and check out their “News” section towards the bottom. How many “strong” tags can you count?
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With a New Heart Pump, Dick Cheney No Longer Has a Pulse
Posted: 28th July 2010 by Veritas in Politics, Science | TechnologyTags: anticoagulant, artificial hearts, cell battery, coumadin, donor heart, episcopal hospital, former vice president, heart failure patients, ill patients, lung damage, president dick cheney, recovery time, short of breath, stages of heart failure, texas heart institute, ventricular assist devices, vice president dick cheney, warfarin
Former Vice President Dick Cheney is recuperating from surgery to implant the kind of mechanical pump now being given to a small but growing number of people with heart failure so severe that they would most likely die within a few months without it.
The pumps are partial artificial hearts known as ventricular assist devices. Cheney’s [...]
China Surpasses USA as World’s Top Energy Consumer
Posted: 20th July 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Economy | Finance, Politics, Science | TechnologyTags: chief economist, China, chinese families, climate change talks, consumer, consumption patterns, curbs, developed nations, energy, energy consumer, energy consumption, energy prices, energy source, energy sources, global markets, greenhouse gases, industrialization, international energy agency, record numbers, solar power, subsistence farmers, unavoidable consequence, USA
China has overtaken the United States as the world’s largest energy consumer, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday. China immediately questioned the report, claiming its calculations were “unreliable.”
The Paris-based agency said China’s 2009 consumption of energy sources ranging from oil and coal to wind and solar power was equal to 2.265 billion tons of oil, [...]