Today, while at work, I was filming a site using a new high definition camcorder with face recognition technology. The camera is impressive, and usually good at picking up faces: front profiles, side profiles, on weird angles — it usually recognizes a face. So what interested me was when it started indicating that [...]

[Read more →]

This article was linked to on Digg recently, and there has been some misunderstanding of its content. It concerns a discovery of a new catalyst that could make it possible to use sunlight to directly split water into hydrogen and oxygen. This might turn out to be quite important in the future (if we start [...]

[Read more →]

I recently read this article on organic foods over at quackwatch.org. Following the article, the author had posted a reader protest complaining how it was unfair to lump organic farmers/foodies in with other “quacks”. The reader asks:
Honestly, is it so nutty to think we would be better off eating food that ISN’T full of [...]

[Read more →]

A recent entry in this blog discussed a poll in which Americans were asked whether or not they believed nanotechnology is immoral. According to the poll, it turns out that a minority of Americans believe that research in the field of nanotechnology is moral. Regardless of what this says about the American political [...]

[Read more →]

According to a recent poll performed by the University of Wisconsin, the majority of Americans believe that nanotechnology, or, the development and use of microscopic machines to service the body (and for many other practical purposes) is fundamentally immoral:
That’s according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin who are studying people’s attitudes towards nanotechnology, an [...]

[Read more →]