Tag Archives: Sci/Tech

The Arab world’s equivalent of American Idol, Star Academy, concluded in April with the crowning of Saudi Arabian singer Hisham Abdul-Rahman as “Star” on the Lebanese LBC network. I love the awkward enthusiasm of the announcement of Hisham’s victory on the English version of the show’s website: “Congratulations and celebrations …

String theory, black holes, worm holes, relativity, movement at or near the speed of light, and the unimpeachable Back to the Future and Bill and Ted movies all suggest the possibility of time travel, or the reversibility of the arrow of time; but overcoming the technical and conceptual problems inherent …

On Monday, May 2nd at 06:45 pm British Summer Time (1:45 pm U.S. Eastern), Orlando Bloom will be in London to attend the European premiere of Kingdom of Heaven and take part in an exclusive video webcast. Also featured will be exclusive Kingdom of Heaven footage, LIVE red carpet coverage …

So said Senior Deputy District Attorney Ron Zonen when he argued this morning for the admissibility of two books of pictorial essays containing pictures of nude boys that had been seized from Jackson’s Neverland Ranch by the Los Angeles Police Department as part of a previous investigation of earlier allegations …

Viacom’s radio unit Infinity Broadcasting announced that beginning May 16, their San Francisco AM radio outlet KYCY will become KYOURADIO, the programming of which will consist of podcasts sent in by the public. Joel Hollander, Infinity’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said Wednesday, “There is a profound shift underway in …

The Earth is warming, and human activity is probably contributing to it. Even if this warming turns out to be short-term on a geophysical scale, it will have huge effects on health, and culture and economies worldwide. Unfortunately, many intelligent people, some with political agendas and some merely wrong-headed, argue …

Where are all the female bloggers?” HERE, in my weekly “top ten.” Why “femmes fatales”? Because these are killer posts, selected for great ideas and great writing, general interest, and variety. First and most importantly I have to point to Uncommon Misconceptions must-read testimony about her decision to have a …

Pope Benedict XVI may be a doctrinal luddite, but he is down with the communicative abilities of cyberspace. “Let us go forth in the joy of the risen Lord and trusting in his permanent help,” proclaimed his first text message sent to all TIM cellphone users who subscribe to a …

Responding to a new sort of globalization, the American Civil Liberties Union and two affiliated groups have announced an initiative to monitor and publicize the practice whereby governments, in the name of security, make cooperative agreements with one another in order to “escape domestic legal and political controls.” The new …

Oh . dear . lord . almighty – it’s April 15th and for the first time in my entire life I am forced to do my own taxes (our taxes to be exact.) For reasons that I would rather not go into, this is the first year we have had …