Science/Nature
Economy, Environment, Science/Nature
The Unrealized Horrors of Population Explosion
Free Markets, Human Nature, Science/Nature
Moral Sentiments
“Defenders of the free market insist that virtue is essential to a just and thriving economy. If morality is relevant to economics, it is equally so to allied fields of social science, all of which have as their object of investigation the human person. Indifference to the moral dimension distorts the study of human action…
Crime, Police, Science/Nature
Why Police Sketches Don’t Work, and How They Could Work Far Better
Film, Nature, Science/Nature
Film: How to Build a Tornado
Crime, Law, Science/Nature
The Over-rated, Over-hyped Polygraph
Animals, Science/Nature
Sharks and Surveillance
Sharks, like many people, dislike surveillance cameras: REMUS SharkCam: The hunter and the hunted from Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. on Vimeo. In 2013, a team from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution took a specially equipped REMUS “SharkCam” underwater vehicle to Guadalupe Island in Mexico to film great white sharks in the wild. They captured more…
Business, Science/Nature, Technology
WATCH LIVE @ 9 pm CT: SpaceX Unveils 1st Manned Dragon Spacecraft
Science/Nature, Technology
Another triumph of Elon Musk’s private SpaceX
America’s most extraordinary accomplishments in space lie yet ahead, and private efforts like the ones from SpaceX are among those forthcoming accomplishments. Just one example is SpaceX’s Grasshopper vertical takeoff, vertical landing capability. Step by step, SpaceX has been perfecting VTVL capability for rockets, thereby reducing recovery times, improving recovery safety, and cutting refurbishing costs…
Science/Nature
The October Sky: Blazing Venus, Andromeda, and Orionid meteors
Science/Nature
Curiosity Mars Rover Mission: NASA Live Television on UStream
Engadget offers the schedule for NASA’s Mars mission: “NASA TV will be broadcasting the event onUstream, offering commentary from the minds behind the rover, as well as audio from mission control. The Curiosity Cam, which runs from 11:30PM until 2:00AM EST and 3:30AM to 4:30AM EST, will offer commentary from the scientists and engineers behind Curiosity,…
Science/Nature
Go Curiosity!
NASA’s Administrator, Charles Bolden, has recorded a video for the employees of his agency, encouraging them to share excitement over the Curiosity rover’s upcoming August 2012 landing on Mars. It’s called, ‘Go Curiosity.’ The video announces a press kit available to NASA employees, so that they can talk about the mission with friends and neighbors.…