Physicists in Scotland have figured out a way to reverse the Casimir effect. This could lead to frictionless levitating of small parts or possibly even larger things like people.
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NASA’s $420 million Phoenix Mars lander blasted off early today and began a 10-month voyage to the red planet, bound for the northern polar plains where scientists
believe vast deposits of ice are hidden just beneath the frozen surface.
A crazed New Zealand driver ran down a 58-year-old woman. When pulled out of his car, while clutching a laptop, he invoked the name of Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
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An interview with Dennis Kucinich about his presidential platform on energy and the environment
A vegan who counts Ralph Nader among his heroes, Kucinich doesn’t exactly embody the sensibility of the average American. He says his commitment to sustainability
“extends to everything I am and do” — from the food he eats and clothes he wears to the policies he espouses. It’s the same progressive platform that made him a darling
of the far left when he ran for president in 2004.
It turns out that the tiny toner particles emitted by laser printers have a similar effect on lungs as second-hand smoke.
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Iraq is celebrating their recent win the Asian Cup.
About 3,000 Iraqi refugees celebrated in Damascus, Syria. In Dearborn, Mich., Iraqi-Americans gathered in the streets, honking horns, sitting on car roofs and waving
flags.
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy.
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Ingmar Bergman, director of several famous films including The Seventh Seal died today.
Readers of National Review, “the bible of american Conservatism” go on a regular cruise with a literal whose who of conservatives like Kenneth Star and John O’Sullivan.
A reporter tags along with disturbing results.
The civilised countries should invade all the oil-owning places in the Middle East and run them properly. We won’t take the money ourselves, but we’ll manage it so the
money isn’t going to terrorists.
