SpaceX Falcon 9 Heads for Heaven With Dragon Capsule Mockup SpaceX’s Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral this morning, bearing unmanned mockup of the Dragon Capsule intended to...
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Rash of Egyptian Shark Attacks Three snorkelers have been injured, and a German woman killed, in shark attacks off the Egyptian resort town of...
Pro-Wikileaks Hackers Take Down Swiss Bank Late Monday evening Swiss time, a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack by hackers took down the website of PostFinance, the...
Carbon Nanotubes Are the New Blacker Than Black The third-best thing about NASA’s announcement that it’s created carbon nanotubes one-nanometer diameter to make a paint blacker than...
Making Child Abuse Facebook Famous You see…I am what they call a “fantasy-prone personality.” While dodging “suggestions” from people who, on most days, wisely...
Teddy Roosevelt, Monster Hunter? Did you know Theodore Roosevelt came this close to hunting a South American plesiosaur? “This” close being not at...
Cryonics in Fiction: More Fun With Frozen Dead People Cryonic fiction! In case you either just can’t get enough information about freezing your head, or you just keep...
Christ Comes to Omaha Look, I know you probably already know this, but you should be really, really careful what you search for...
Cryonics Magazine Goes Digital Wanna find out how to “optimize your cryopreservation arrangements,” i.e., freeze your head? Cryonics magazine is your Bible, your...