Tag Archives: Sci/Tech

Giddy with the star treatment they received in the caper film National Treasure, wherein the Declaration of Independence was stolen for “its own protection” (and for the invisible treasure map on the back), the National Archives and Records Administration will launch a new public web site on Wednesday, July 20, …

...no advocate of the there’s a pill for every ill that afflicts you school of medicine...

There is nothing more nauseating then seeing millionaire, and billionaire fascists... painting themselves as hard done by.

About a week ago, the Independent Northern League decided that as a promotion, one of the league’s games would be played by two video game players on an X-Box to determine the first two innings of the game. The Kansas City T-Bones and Schamburg Flyers would face the first two …

Rivalries are a mainstay in sports. It’s the nature of the sports and how games are played. One team/player has to win, and so there also must be a loser. There have been many great sports rivalries: Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson, Boston Red Sex and New York Yankees, Adolf …

In the Grokster case, the Supreme Court unanimously decided that “One who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright, as shown by clear expression or other affirmative steps taken to foster infringement, going beyond mere distribution with knowledge of third-party action, is liable for …

Tom Cruise continues his tear through the media machine, promoting his new film War of the Worlds, which opens nationwide tomorrow. When we last spoke of such things he sparred with The Today Show’s Matt Lauer on matters of religion and psychopharmacology, calling psychiatry a “pseudo-science.” He also blathered on …

...the study of genetics and D.N.A. results in answers being postulated to questions of racial characteristics that are making people uncomfortable.

I read over at MSN recently of Tamim Ansary’s (a columnist) list of the 10 greatest inventions. His number one is the mechanical clock. And kudos for that. Not many people realize how important and ingenious time is to both nature and civilization as we know it. I don’t think …

We at Blogcritics are deeply honored, and I am personally touched, to have been selected among the inaugural AlwaysOn and Technorati “Open Media 100 – the power list of bloggers, social networkers, tool smiths, and investors leading the Open Media Revolution.” I mean this is a serious, serious list of …