Fetishizing the Bayonet
Bayonets may have become a symbol of outdated military technology, as the president suggested in his debate-night jab, but they have a darker history.
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Social Sciences Fact Check: Romney’s Debate Dig at Spain
Lavish Spanish spending. Feeds six. Here’s a quick fact-check on Mitt Romney’s mid-debate comment last night, that the…
Journalists: Why Do We Even Bother?
Why am I even writing this? Odds are that you, dear reader, don’t believe a word journalists like…
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…
The World’s First Earbud Headphones
Apple may have popularized the earbud, but these ear-mounted speakers have roots to the Roaring '20s.
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…
Is America’s ‘Strategic Pivot’ Towards China Premature?
In the cover story of our inaugural issue back in April, we took note of the Obama administration’s…
Two Border Collies Conduct an EPA Cleanup
Good boy Via Science Now, the EPA has found that letting two dogs run around a beach improved the quality…
Happy(ish) World Veil Day
It’s International Hijab Day. The event began in 2004 to protest the French government’s ban on wearing the…
Who is Bombing Mexico’s Nanotech Labs?
Policemen outside the Monterrey Institute of Technology after a letter bomb exploded there in August 2011. (A. FRANCO/AP/PRESS…