Techcitement*

  First of all, I won’t apologize for the pun in the title. Secondly, it seems my first male contraceptive article stirred up a lot of controversy about the hypothetical anti-HIV properties of RISUG (shared from a journal named, appropriately, Medical Hypotheses). After speaking with the makers of the U.S. version, they mentioned that although this [...]

Google “Bill Gates is Evil” and you get a whole lot of results going over all the horrible, terrible things that Gates has done. People don’t like his business practices, his public persona, or his products. Fine, but I personally think evil is oversimplifying.   The concept of “this businessman is BAD and everything he [...]

In a gaming world saturated with online achievements, the most badass achievement has got to be “Helped Fight AIDS IRL”. How does one go about getting it? Simple: just unravel a complicated three-dimensional architecture of an AIDS-like virus that has eluded scientists for nearly a decade. The game that made this real-life achievement possible, appropriately [...]