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I was standing on a street corner, waiting to cross on my way to a meeting at a large public hospital. A man in his 40s walked down the sidewalk behind me, staring straight ahead. He was alone, but was carrying on an animated conversation about the government’s failings. The lights changed and I started [...]
Archive for the ‘Technology and Society’ Category
March 3rd, 2013
Category: Africa, Technology and Society
The peaceful conquest of Africa by the mobile phone.
January 18th, 2013
The endless GOP hostage theatre over US budgets succeeds in one of its main purposes: to distract attention from issues that matter. Like the race against the clock to avoid complete climate breakdown. We already have the trailers. So here comes a fat Victorian-novel style doorstopper weekend post with as many nutritious links as a [...]
January 8th, 2013
Mapping EGS seismic clouds with pretty coloured bubbles.
November 30th, 2012
Category: Technology and Society, Woolgathering
Hagfish shed light, or at least slime, on the drivers of innovation.
November 22nd, 2012
A simple solar still using gold nanoparticles.
October 13th, 2012
Ryan’s odd claim that Iran is speeding up its centrifuges.
September 10th, 2012
Progress in tidal power.
August 9th, 2012
Let’s disabuse the Iranian public of the nuclear power fantasy.
July 26th, 2012
A suggestion to wrap policy for renewable energy in the homesteading myth.