Britain’s national forensics lab is auctioning off their stuff, start your own CSI
Grabbing a bullet can be harder than you might think. If it’s buried deep inside a wall, how could you get your fingers around it? For that matter, you really shouldn’t be getting your fingers around this bullet—you might get charged with some crime. The solution is obvious: you need a tool to pull out…
The emotional illusion that makes the future (and the past) look so rosy
“Ah, the good ol’ days.” “They just don’t make [X] like they used to.” “Back in my day…” The wealth of English phrases about how great things used to be might be a tip-off that our quirky ape brains are biased toward looking toward at the past in a happy light. And indeed, many psychologists…
Will multinational corporations someday end up owning all our land?
Hundreds of years ago, European colonists took possession of much of the surface of our planet through unsubtle means: murder, subjugation, and their special move, bringing horrific new diseases. Nowadays, the wealthy and powerful expand their domains less confrontationally, but the effects can still be pretty harmful. Interests in rich countries — mainly multinational corporations…
Engineer thinks we could build a real Starship Enterprise in 20 years
In Star Trek lore, the first Starship Enterprise will be built by the year 2245. But today, an engineer has proposed – and outlined in meticulous detail – building a full-sized, ion-powered version of the Enterprise complete with 1G of gravity on board, and says it could be done with current technology, within 20 years.…
