Ok, so the arrival of a neutrino at Gran Sasso in Italy 0.000000006 of a second faster than expected is, numerically speaking, a tiny difference. In reality it could cause huge revisions of the last 150 years of physics. I must stress before I use such hyperbole that the researchers have published their results with the expressed …
If any of the scientific disciplines is going to to lead to a terminator style machines taking over the world scenario it’s this one: Biological Engineering. At it’s most basic premise its about improving the human body through both biological and synthetic improvements or modifications. Some of these advances are already in use, pacemakers for cardiac patients for example. However …
Lawyers acting on behalf of the Centre for Constitutional Rights and the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests submitted an 80 page complaint to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The complaint urges the ICC to investigate Vatican officials for crimes against humanity based on what the complaint describes as “abetting and covering up the rape and sexual assault of children …
Today is the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. Everyone has their own story of where they were that day and what they were doing. I was on my way to an after school maths tutor when the planes hit the towers and wasn’t told about it until …
As the Wikileaks saga continues to rumble on almost daily political tit bits enter the public domain, the whole shock factor that gave weight to the initial release of the first round of official US cables has all but dried up. In the main most of the revelations are not very shocking and end up being things the …
I’ve been playing about with a fun piece of software called IOGraphica. All it does is track your mouse movements as you use your computer and creates an image based on those movements. Like all great software it is both fantastically simple and effortlessly brilliant. As the mouse moves across the screen it draws a …
