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Noam Chomsky: Humanity Imperiled

The path to disaster. Image from Flickr via mashleymorgan By Noam ChomskyBy arrangement with TomDispatch What is the future likely to bring? A reasonable stance might be to try to look at the human…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2724 words)

How A War Hero Became A Serial Bank Robber

Around 11:45 on the morning of Saturday, April 23, 2011, a young man wearing sunglasses and a blue hoodie walked into a U.S. Bank in Lyndhurst, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. His name was Nicholas…
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
PUBLISHED: May 31, 2013
LENGTH: 33 minutes (8341 words)

Little Grown-ups and Their Progeny

On the evening of July 24, 1899, newsboys were pouring into the Lower East Side from every direction—uptown, the Battery, the Brooklyn Bridge. Decades later, these kids would be enshrined in…
PUBLISHED: March 31, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (780 words)
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Humans | Science News

With drug firms in retreat, the pipeline for new psychiatric medications dries up With drug firms in retreat, the pipeline for new psychiatric medications dries up By Laura Sanders Web edition:…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2797 words)

An Overview of Cryptography

1. INTRODUCTION Does increased security provide comfort to paranoid people? Or does security provide some very basic protections that we are naive to believe that we don't need? During this time when…
LENGTH: 108 minutes (27065 words)

Google's Eric Schmidt: drone wars, virtual kidnaps and privacy for kids

Eric Schmidt told an audience at Cambridge University that although cyber-crime and terroism would be growing problems, connectivity in countries such as North Korea would be of great benefit to…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 29, 2013
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1435 words)

Cocktail Party Physics, Scientific American Blog Network

This weekend I’ll be at Science Online 2013 in North Carolina, moderating a panel with io9′s Annalee Newitz on science and science fiction. It’s a topic near and dear to both our…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 27, 2013
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2430 words)

The ice inferno

Antarctica is a place only an intellectual could love. The further one moves into the interior, away from the coast and storms and marine life that tenuously valence with the Earth, the more dominant…
SOURCE:Aeon
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2610 words)

Leonard Cohen's hallelujah moment

It was a cold grey morning and starting to rain when Leonard Cohen walked down Hampstead High Street, clutching a suitcase and an address. It was just before Christmas 1959 and the windows of the…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 26, 2012
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4801 words)
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