‘We have broken speed of light’:
A pair of German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light – an achievement that would undermine our entire understanding of space and time.
If true, this is one of the most important scientific achievements of our time. The implications as far as communications are staggering as it [...]
Hotel mistakes Nobel laureate for bag lady :
She was wearing a Mayan dress, the traditional attire of indigenous people in central America, and the hotels response was also traditional: throw her out.
Staff at Cancuns five-star Hotel Coral Beach appear to have assumed this was another street vendor or beggar, so without asking questions they [...]
Sceptre from Roman emperor exhibited:
The only Roman emperors sceptre to have been found has gone on public display in Rome for the first time.The sceptre, which is topped by a blue orb that represents the earth, was discovered at the end of last year and is believed to have been held by Emperor Maxentius, [...]
“Genius” videos may hinder baby development: study – Yahoo! News:
Recordings that claim to stimulate baby brain development may actually slow vocabulary development in infants if they are overused, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.
For every hour per day spent watching baby DVDs and videos, infants aged 8 to 16 months understood an average of six [...]
Walk Score – How walkable is your house? is a new tool showing how walkable your neighborhood is. Very useful little tool and another example of how activists are using online maps to make their point.
Newser is another attempt at presenting news-related information.
2008 Presidential Election Candidates on the Issues is a great chart to compare politician’s agenda in the 2008 presidential campaign for US president.
FOIA Request Form is to government data what MyFico is to credit data.
Microsoft Surface is Microsoft’s entry into the multi-touch world. Between the iPhone and now Microsoft Surface, it looks like Multitouch will soon become one of the predominant computing interfaces in the world. An interesting development which will probably have us rethink some of our assumptions regarding how we use computers.
Global Nerdy » Cyberwar Ain’t What It Used to Be:
What I find really interesting is that the only futuristic thing about the whole affair are the “cyber-” terms used to describe it. The actual attack itself isn’t anywhere as exotic or future-tech-y as Neuromancer and all those other cyberpunk novels of the ’80s and ’90s [...]
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