Science
Bitcoin: ‘The Most Dangerous Technological Project Since The Internet Itself’
From launch.is "Bitcoin is a P2P currency that could topple governments, destabilize economies and create uncontrollable global bazaars...
Mars was Earth Once, but Soon Venus Will Be
'The Solar System can be regarded as a timeline. As they successively undergo the same process, all the...
Patternicity
(photo by Cennydd, used under a CC license) "Patternicity: the tendency to find meaningful patterns in both meaningless...
Pareidolia
(image by Nuco, used under a CC license) From the kindly bots at Wikipedia: Pareidolia (pronounced /pærɪˈdoʊliə/ pa-ri-DOE-lee-ə)...
Aliens: predators II
Lengthy piece in the Guardian following up on the Hawking warning against the potential disaster of humanity meeting...
Aliens: predators
'Stephen Hawking warns over making contact with aliens...he warned that aliens might simply raid Earth for resources, then...
The Universe: tacky crap
I was reading about 20 years of the Hubble telescope and came to the realization that the universe...
Steorn To Demo ‘Orbo’
(image by gnackgnackgnack, used under a Creative Commons license) Wahey! Those wily lads at Steorn (the boffins who...
Brainwaving.com
(image by Lapolab, used under a Creative Commons license) From sometime Blatherskite, Dr. David Luke, comes a new...
Carls Sagan’s ‘A Glorious Dawn’
I've had a flu this last while and spent some time in bed getting stuck into Carl Sagan's...