Bleh, nonsense. Even if you're right about there the government being a monolithic cabal of soulless mercenaries which makes the Pharmaceutical Industry dance like a monkey (you're not), why would they suppress a cure for cancer? It would be the most lucrative thing ever, ever. The entire world would clamor for it —…

I'm always amazed by peoples' ability to watch a 2-minute-long grainy YouTube video and instantly determine that the many reporters who have covered it were duped by a sophisticated fake, nodding sagely all the while. It's fantastic that there are so many certified graphic designers and/or CIA satellite imagery…

It's not sick, it's unequivocally more moral than current practices. One can argue about the level of suffering that farmed chickens experience (or are capable of experiencing), but when you remove the capability of an animal to experience anything at all, the issue becomes moot. Nobody wrings their hands over the…

This reminds me of a game from the late 80s called Portal (no, not that one), which I played on my (incredibly still functional) Apple IIe. It was also a non-game game. It was distinct from IF games like Infocom adventures, in that it was almost entirely non-interactive. It presented you with a GUI which you would…

That's like saying studying plants from the Amazon rain forest is destroying its value. I would argue that the rain forest's (and this lake's) greatest value is as a source of scientific novelty. It's not like we're draining the lake to sell exotic ice cubes to expensive bars...

I'm glad to see Gerber has expanded from baby food into the realm of rugged multi-tools. Now you can open your MRE ration of Gerber-brand Tactical Creamed Brocolli in the field!

What I find silliest about this plane (even though it is a thing of beauty from a technophile's point of view) is that it's been built for the type of war that's not going to happen within its design lifetime. There's a reason that - since the inception of the F-35 program - focus has been shifted almost exclusively…

Cool. It would be interesting, though, to know what this fungus produces from the polyurethane it eats. It's not much use if it metabolizes the hydrocarbons down into small, toxic molecules that can more readily reach the water table than sheets of plastic...

It is - it's really nice, and I feel like a tool complaining about something so expensive and pretty. But the brass drops my cell reception by at least a bar, and seems to screw with WiFi signals too...And there is something to be said about using iPhones naked. They're lighter and they feel better in your hand —…

I actually love that you're promoting a case-free lifestyle...Sadly, a friend gave me a (quite beautiful) brass and rosewood ExoVault case for Christmas, and I don't know if I can bring myself to part with a case that costs almost as much as my damn phone. As beautiful as the thing is, it adds several pounds to the…

Clearly what we really need are a few of these...

Light actually travels at about 186,000 miles per second. The shuttle did not, in fact, go 8,000 miles per second; that would mean that it could travel at 30 million mph.....

Man, those guys are assholes. Someone should invent a system to automatically target and shoot them down with lasers, or...ah - right.