I read something interesting the other day. The author of an article on ambitious business startup ideas taught me that my understanding of Moore’s Law was plain wrong.
Everyone thinks they know Moore’s Law. I thought I did. The common understanding is that computer processor clock speed will double every 18 months. Anyone paying attention to [...]

We hear a lot of stories about America’s founding fathers, and many of them are about Benjamin Franklin’s inventions and exploits. One of the most famous legends about Franklin is that he discovered electricity with a kite and a key in a storm. The story goes that he went outside on a stormy night with [...]

For most people, their exposure to the genius of F. Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller is limited to photos of Spaceship Earth, the massive, golf-ball like structure that welcomes visitors into Disney’s EPCOT Center in Orlando, Florida. The structure, known as the “Geodesic Dome,” a marvel of architecture, mathematics and technology was actually invented by Fuller and [...]

Obviously, the world of fashion is constantly evolving. Designers are forever challenged to create new concepts, new designs and new trends and with stiff bi-annual deadlines (both fall and spring shows across the globe), innovation is an integral part of the fashion industry. Without constant change and artistic development, the fashion industry and those in [...]

Today is the 102nd birthday of a man who made an indelible mark on American pop culture: Leo Fender, the man who utterly perfected (and commercialized) the electric guitar Americans have come to know and love so well in their rock music.
It’s kind of hard to think of a world that had no electric guitar. [...]

Just days ago, NASA celebrated the 35th Anniversary of the Apollo moon landing, an event that was truly the culmination of over a decade of strife, as NASA engineers and astronauts heeded then President John F. Kennedy’s call to look forward into space. In 1968, as Neil Armstrong and his team hovered over the moon, [...]

Today, farmers are accused of “tampering with Nature.” But farmers have been doing such tampering for thousands of years. We had to, for survival. As one dramatic example, wild sheep didn’t have wool. Rocky Mountain Big Horn Sheep still don’t! Nature gave sheep a long, coarse hair coat instead. In the beginning, the wool was [...]

The UN has held another Green Summit in Nagoya, Japan to save the wild species—again. The planet’s temperatures have failed to increase for 12 years, and the public is losing interest in man-made global warming. So, back to the cuddly wild animals as the excuse for shutting down the modern world.
The UN’s problem is that [...]

“China’s control of a key minerals market has US military thinkers and policy makers worried about access to materials that are essential for 21st-century technology like smartphones – and smart bombs,” the Wall Street Journal reports. Plus stealth fighter jets, digital cameras, computer hard drives – and wind turbine magnets, solar panels, hybrid and electric [...]

Pennsylvania State University recently released a report summarizing its final “investigation” into whether one of its employees had committed scientific misconduct. The report exonerated Dr. Michael Mann of all charges, although he did receive a tap on the wrist – for sharing unpublished manuscripts with third parties without first getting the authors’ permission!
The result was [...]

Stanford University recently startled the world with its conclusion that conventional high-yield farming is far better for the planet than low-yield farming. And this includes the First World’s current icon, organic farming.
We know that high-yield farms need less land to produce the same amount of food, protecting the huge amounts of soil carbon that would [...]

The presidents of eighteen prestigious U.S. scientific associations wrote all members of the U.S. Senate on October 21, 2009 as they were facing a vote on a momentous cap-and-trade bill to control global warming:
Observations throughout the world make it clear that climate change is occurring, and rigorous scientific research demonstrates that the greenhouse gases emitted [...]