Have you ever wondered if the money you spend ends up funding causes you oppose? The front page of Buycott’s website poses this question to visitors. In a political landscape where a dollar for Stephanie Meyer turns into a boon for anti-gay rights organizations and cash-flooded lobbyists have just as much of a say in […]
Right now, I owe my best friend $25 for a They Might Be Giants concert ticket and $27 for a Magic the Gathering pre-release tournament, my boyfriend $40 because I had to order a new debit card and destroy my old one after someone used it to spend $500 at Walmart.com, and my mom $300 […]
Driving down the highway the other day, I saw an American staple, one that’s been part of my framework for understanding the U.S. for as long as I can remember – the Chik-Fil-A cows. These poorly educated and perpetually inept endorsers of every Chik-Fil-A sandwich ever invented have encouraged the American populace to “Eat Mor […]
Take a preliminary glimpse at the photos of the new invisible bike helmet and you just might believe this new invention is a hoax, a too-cool piece of technological fiction meant to taunt the simultaneously safety- and fashion-conscious. Bike enthusiasts, cycling commuters, and helmet haters everywhere rejoice – it’s real. Hövding (the official name of […]
August 30, 2012 marks a momentous day in the history of online cat videos. The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis is coaxing fans of feline YouTube capers out from behind their computer screens and out into the open. More specifically, these cat video lovers can stalk out into Open Field, the Walker’s big, green lawn […]
With the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in French) earlier this week, it’s about time you learned a little bit more about particle physics, isn’t it? Before you go celebrating with a bottle of champagne, in the style of physicists currently celebrating all over the globe, here’s […]
NeuroVigil, a neurodiagnostics company headquartered in San Diego, has developed a way to hack your brain during sleep by using a headband fitted with electrodes to the wearer’s head to record brainwaves. The company hopes this technology could be used to help people with neurological disorders, such as prominent physicist and author Stephen Hawking, communicate. […]
Social media is the first entity to offer life after death and have some tangible proof to back it up. From battles over who controls an individual’s social media accounts after they die to a selection of applications and websites that grant the user a few posthumous last words or even allow them to regularly […]
The smartphone has been ubiquitous for just long enough that a new, mind-bogglingly futuristic piece of gadgetry was due sometime soon, and Google researchers and developers are working quickly to fill the niche. Rumor on the internet says Google is on-track to release Heads-Up Display glasses by the end of year, with a prototype and […]
On Sunday, February 19, Australian and American physicists working at Purdue University and the University of New South Wales reported in the journal Nature Nanotechnology that they successfully built a working transistor from a single atom using a reliable and repeatable process. Transistors are the fundamental building blocks of computers and many other modern electronic devices; […]
