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The Washington Post is reporting this morning sobering news regarding the loss of life in Congo ten years after war erupted in the African country and six years after a peace agreement was signed. The numbers exceed 5.4 million deaths in Congo which is eight percent of the entire country’s population of 66 million. According […]

With the Dow opening nearly 190 points down, investors are trying to decide whether to stay in the fight, or take flight. It’s a scary time to be a stock trader, but not all is doomed. As this Business Week article suggests, now may be the moment to strike for rock bottom bargains on Wall […]

As always, science continues to impress me. Scientists in Grenoble, France, have discovered a way to harvest energy from falling raindrops that can be used to power electronic devices. The new system catches the mechanical energy from the impact of a falling raindrop and uses it to convert the energy to electricity. But first, a […]

Finally, an actor is making headlines without dying. Yesterday, Jerry O’Connell and his cohorts posted what is sure to become a viral video on the YouTube-esque site Funny or Die. The video, directed by comedian Jerry Minor, serves as a parody of the recently leaked Tom Cruise Scientology video. If you haven’t seen any clips […]

A study appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences states that in the past five years, the majority of staph infections that go through schools, day-cares, and prisons in the United States all come from the same bacterial strain. Scientists have dubbed the bacterium USA300, and are worried that derivatives of the […]

War is never pretty. Just look at the infighting among Hollywood studios over the next generation of entertainment media. It has been a long, drawn-out battle with a few surprises, but Gizmodo thinks they have the real story about HD DVD versus Blu-ray. Cast your memory back to the shocker of Warner Bros. changing horses […]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation, or what is lovingly known as J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, is being accused of stealing nuclear secrets and selling them to other countries. Sibel Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator, listened into hundreds of sensitive intercepted conversations. Her accusations are rather serious, as she claims that the secrets were […]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as the old saying goes. Is it the long stem of a rose filled with thorns, exquisite yet dangerous to a degree? Is is the sleek lines of an expensive automobile or the smile on a child’s face laughing at Christmas? For some of us geeks, it’s […]

Today, a whole new meaning is tied to the phrase, “let’s go fly a kite.” Instead of a toy enjoyed by kids everywhere, a 462 ft. cargo ship is leaving Germany today — with a parachute-shaped kite as its means of power. The MS Beluga’s owners, in collaboration with Sky Sail inventor Stephen Wrage, will […]

In the beginning, it was easy to try and discredit Sony with their shiny, black gaming console. The PlayStation 3 was supposed to smuggle in the other high-def movie format Blu-ray, just like the PS2 originally moved DVD’s closer into the home. But the difference back then was that DVD’s were already an established medium, […]

Who in the world wouldn’t want to follow a How-To describing the process behind “a vision-guided fireball-throwing catapult out of an ordinary industrial robot”? Sign me up. These guys are the most talented robot hackers I’ve ever seen. What they’ve done is constructed a medieval weapon from modern technology. This thing is even equipped with […]

Mental Floss, the bi-monthly magazine dedicated to making the world smarter and funnier, recently published a post on their blog detailing a list of “Five Peculiar Instruments.” This collection is so unusual that I myself had only previously heard of one instrument on the list: the didgeridoo. Though I knew it originated among the aboriginals […]

The majority of writers want to have their stories/articles read and enjoyed thoroughly. If you’re a journalist or blogger, talent is essential to writing successfully, but there are ways to help your readers stay interested to the very end. This article gives advice on how to make your words, literally “unputdownable.” Here are a few […]

In a report published today in Nature Biotechnology, researchers describe a microbial fuel cell that may be able to power batteries in the future. The isolated bacterium Rhodoferax ferrireducens was collected from an aquifer in Virginia, and when used as a “bacterial battery,” can convert simple sugars into electricity with 81% efficiency. To generate the […]

With the presidential campaign in full swing, allegations of the possibility of a “stolen” race in a story published in 2006 continues to focus on whether or not Diebold Machines can be tampered with. And ultimately alter the vote of the American people on their choice for who should be president. Diebold continues to take […]