Seven years since
Alan Taylor of the Boston Globe presents a vivid photographic remembrance of September 11, 2001, including present-day images of architectural …
Bell Labs Kills Fundamental Physics Research
It was a birthplace of a wealth of advances that fueled the technology revolution. Now, as reported in this article …
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64 years ago, the IBM Mark I was born
Wider than my front lawn and heavier than your car, with enough internal wiring to make a tin-can phone to …
East meets West in ever-widening surveillance grid
From the LA Times The West might have a stronger argument in questioning China’s potential for intrusive surveillance if it …
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn dies at 89
In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the …
Greenwald: Vital Unresolved Anthrax Questions and ABC News
from Salon.com If the now-deceased Ivins really was the culprit behind the attacks, then that means that the anthrax came …
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Anthrax Scientist Kills Himself
From the Washington Post A top U.S. biodefense researcher has apparently committed suicide just as the Justice Department was about …
Secrets of the World’s Oldest Calculator Are Revealed Today
Check out the video that comes along with this story from the Telegraph, or just go here if you’re impatient. …
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Rubik’s Cube solved by Legos
I love seeing stuff like this. A fellow named Hans Andersson borrowed his kids’ Lego Mindstorms NXT set and decided …
Greenwald: Political harmony v. the rule of law
I’m never sorry to have taken the time to read and absorb what Glenn Greenwald writes. The current approval rating …
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In Search of a Beautiful Mind
He was long a jewel of the MIT faculty. Now, after a devastating brain injury, mathematician Seymour Papert is struggling …
Inflation in U.S Growing at Fastest Pace in Over 27 Years
The economy showed the depth of its twin problems on Tuesday, slow growth and rising inflation, as the nation wrestled …
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