Under the Radar

I have been flying on U for 30 years, and in that time, have been very satisfied most of the time. There were two strange incidents, howeve...

As in the story, in which the first half takes 20 years, and then in the second half fate rains down on them all in a single day, we may ver...

http://www.slate.com/slideshow/business-tech/happy-20th-birthday-world-wide-web/ You have transformed the world.

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/jamesfallows/assets_c/2011/07/24editorial_graph2-popup-58477.php

Audible is really great in so many ways, and yet... There is a bizarre Audible policy that says you can have only 6 credits at one time. Af...

After 58 years, analog TV broadcasting has ended in Japan, except in those areas affected by the March megaquake.

What a fascinating puzzle! I thoroughly enjoyed following your efforts these many years. I cannot imagine how much work you and your colle...

It must be just teeming with bacteria. At least! http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/home/124501909.html

I don't know how to tell them this, but they are just not that important anymore. I used to flip through the NYT every day, but since I ...

Although nominal GDP has returned to levels before the crash, there are 20 million fewer jobs. Also, since the dollar has lost say 20% agai...

The country’s energy future is being dictated by the world’s major oil producing nations with no input from American policymakers, a former ...

Oh, wait, then the utility company can't make money... http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2011/04/desert-tortoise-ivanpah-bright...

Paul Allen, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft , has lashed out at internet rivals such as Apple and described Google as "evil...

Genuine ignorance is... profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to re...

What is the matter with some people? Worse than the criminals they prosecute. Don't want to get the right answer, just want to get an ...

Just because something appears to make sense, that does not mean it is true. Often times, more than one story appears to make sense, given t...

THIS MIGHT BE IT! DEFINITIVE PROOF THAT THERE IS LIFE OUT THERE. I expect there are thousands of bodies in our solar system alone that cur...

I guesstimate there will turn out to be a billion habitable Earthlike planets in the habitable zone of the Milky Way, say 20,000 to 40,000 l...

It tastes like plastic. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41479869/ns/health-diet_and_nutrition/

I have used this for years and it is totally worth the price. http://www.igcusa.com/greenhouse-shade-cloth-aluminet.html

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/02/hiv-as-youve-never-seen-it-before.html

For which Michael Caine wins Best Supporting Actor. A true gentleman. One of the most generous and warm acceptance speeches ever. http://w...

You just hold the iPad up to the sky... or down at the floor!... and it shows you what the sky looks like there! Jawdropping. Star Walk htt...

And then I heard this on a podcast and said "Doh!" From Wikipedia The accepted explanation for the pulsation of Cepheids is called...

The Japanese economic newspapers are reporting that sales of LED light bulbs in Japan went from essentially zero in July of last year to 64%...

It seems to me that many people do not understand that what makes their land worth something is a supply of water. By taking even $100,000 ...

“Economics is fundamentally about efficiently allocating resources so as to maximize the welfare of individuals.” http://www.nybooks.com/art...

The Fermi team sent protons and antiprotons into a head-on collision, which produced slightly more muons than antimuons. So, for some reason...

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=interactive-12-events

This would be truly extraordinary... Life, but not as we know it... http://www.physorg.com/news194801328.html And Mars! http://www.physorg.c...

"There can be no gain saying of the fact that our nation has brought the world to an awe inspiring threshold of the future. We've b...

You can tell we are getting to the sweet part of the exponential advance curve. Just look at how different the world is from around 2000. N...

The first step in learning how to do something right is to do it wrong first.

After 20 years of heavy use of herbicides such as Roundup, surprise! evolution! and the weeds have become so resistant that the herbicide is...

You will soon, say by 2015 at the latest, be easily and cheaply be able to determine whether you need a low dose or a high dose for many dru...

If you are using an iPod with a lot of memory, audio file size is probably not an issue. When you buy an audiobook at Audible.com, you can d...

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-04/gene-silencing-shows-first-success-preventing-human-disease

We will learn an enormous amount in the very short term, quite a bit in the medium term, and absolutely nothing in the long term. Jeremy Gra...

You can fool some of the people all of the time... and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

I did not understand until I had had an iPod Touch for a while that it is not just an iPod. It is actually a completely independent compute...

http://www.physorg.com/news189351860.html http://www.sis-group.org.uk/abstract/napier.htm

The world’s deepest drill is about to get taller—tall enough to dig into Earth's mantle. Already, the Chikyu research vessel is capable ...

While seasonal flu deaths are in people aged 76 on average, the average age of people killed by swine flu was 37. So Simonsen also decided t...

http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/201003265

On Petticoat Junction!

http://www.physorg.com/news188995706.html

These are really cool!

http://www.physorg.com/news187978106.html