The iPhone 5 Economy
Would you pay someone $250 to get in line now for the iPhone 5 launch tomorrow, so you…
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A Genealogy of the “Makers/Takers” Theory of America
The Mitt Romney video you’ve probably heard about—the one where he talks about the 47 percent of Americans…
Today in Research Video: Last Tango in Paris as Performed by Praying Mantises
This stunning video of a praying mantis making a meal of another praying mantis, linked to yesterday in…
Killer Whales are Momma’s Boys
And apple pie Via Science 2.0: Marine biologists have determined that male killer whales have an apron strings…
A New Way to Play Taps for Your Tattoo
Not so long ago Chris Opfer told about the burgeoning business of tattoo removal fueled in equal parts…
Should India Build a Beachfront Nuclear Power Plant?
The Debate: How to calculate, and engineer, for risks like this Last week, somewhere between two and eight…
Romney’s Income Tax Rhetoric Misleading
The video that emerged late Monday in which Mitt Romney notes that 47 percent of Americans pay no…
Top Secret Satellite Blast-Off Just Up the Road
As the LA Times points out, satellites will be blasted into space today from the California coast. I’m…
Dark Tourism Has Its Fans
Just two days after the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks themselves, writer Michael Luongo’s piece, “Ground Zero…
Moon Above Politics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jAlE_HLDj8 This morning’s announcement that NASA wants to build a manned moon base by 2017 suggests Democrats and Republicans…