Sat Nov 19, 2011 05:04 PM
Sun Nov 13, 2011 03:10 PM
Would you do the right thing and come forward as a witness if you see something shocking and awful such as child abuse? Scientific data questions your response. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2011/11/13/a-word-in-defense-of-the-witnesses-and-the-word-is-ambiguity/
Sun Nov 13, 2011 03:33 PM
Robots will begin replacing modern day slavery. Food prices may come down some. But this is another step in robotic labor replacing human labor. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/11/13/0410217/startup-testing-mobile-farmbots
An anonymous reader writes “Wired reports on Harvest Automation, a Massachusetts company developing small robots that can perform basic agricultural labor. The ones currently being tested in greenhouses and plant nurseries are ‘knee-high, wheeled machines.’ ‘Each robot has a gripper for grasping pot…
Sun Nov 13, 2011 03:34 PM
http://progressivetoo.com/2011/08/31/martin-luther-king-jr-the-labor-movement-is-essential-to-freedom/ “He often spoke about the critical importance of job training and job security unions provided and he was deeply concerned about job loss through automation and the export of American jobs to nations where workers had few rights.”
Sun Nov 13, 2011 03:59 PM
Let’s welcome the newly rich Chinese millionaires to the USA. Maybe they’ll spend some of their wealth here and support our economy. http://business.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/01/report-half-of-chinas-rich-want-to-leave
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Mon Nov 14, 2011 02:01 PM
The sun doesn’t shine throughout most of the year in Seattle, but this concept could provide 24/7 solar energy to Seattle. But, I could foresee hackers turning it into a giant ant-burning laser. http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre7ac0j1-us-space-energy-solar/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246460/plotsummary
Thu Nov 17, 2011 02:07 PM
Great video of Earth from the International Space Station. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/video-of-the-week/2011/11/16/the-best-video-of-earth-from-space-ever-made/
Sat Nov 19, 2011 05:04 PM
I had a thought of what might be the mystery force of dark energy in the universe while I was trying to fall asleep.
Radiation Entropy. The stars and galaxies emit radiation and it scatters in all directions. Even though photons do not have mass, they are affected by gravity. If so, then photons have a gravitational component. With all those photons scattering throughout the rest of the universe, enough of those photons tug on the galaxies as well … forcing them farther and farther apart from each other.
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