Archive for the 'Science and Technology' Category

Global Warming: It’s about time we did something

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

Supreme Court to consider climate change rules
A case set to be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday signals a growing movement in the U.S. to curb greenhouse gases with government mandates that put a price on carbon dioxide.
The court will hear arguments in a case to determine whether the Environmental Protection Agency should [...]

An Artificial Heart That Doesn’t Beat

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

A new concept for an artificial heart could solve some problems with older models–and test the idea that we don’t need a pulse.
Pretty freakin’ weird! And neat. Don’t you love technology? Link via Digg.

The iPod Clicking Sound of Doom!

Saturday, July 29th, 2006

Today while trying to listen to my iPod, I turned it on and about 10 seconds into listening to the Foo Fighter’s Everlong the little white brick clicks, whines, powers down and shows me this icon on the screen:

After trying to reboot it a few times, I searched the web and found a few articles [...]

High Definition, Redeux

Tuesday, July 4th, 2006

Before moving to San Diego, I owned a beautiful LG HDTV. But right before the Super Bowl this year, I sold it since by then the ball had started rolling on the whole cross-country relocation thing and it was just too big to bring with us.
Leave it to Best Buy to have a sale right [...]

Another reason why GM = the devil

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

Smithsonian Kills the Electric Car
After revoking and destroying their EV1s, General Motors gave a handful of them to museums as historical pieces. Now, the only fully intact EV1 on display has been removed from view at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., to make room for a robotic VW Touareg designed [...]