The National Geographic Society and magazine which has long stood for science, research, and investigation, is now owned by Rupert Murdoch, the man who owns and ‘programs’ ‘news’ on Fox. He now controls arguably the most prestigious scientific publication on the planet. That’s like putting Snoop Dog in charge of the ‘Just Say No’ club […]
Save the box!
The importance of cardboard to our culture is, on a par with space travel and the technology that allows us to speak and see someone in Tonga on our smart phone. All we need to do is find someone in Tonga willing to speak to us. Raw cardboard fresh from the factory is, by itself […]
R.I.P. Language
The Oxford University Press publishes the ‘word of the year’. Past words have been bitcoin, selfie and vape. This year, along with mobile technology business SwiftKey, they accumulate statistics for some of the most popular emojis across the world. Instead of an actual ‘word’, they selected the emoji (emoticon) “Face with Tears of Joy” as […]
Are ‘driver-less’ cars the answer to ‘road rage’?
The police in Mountain View, California, pulled over a Google self-driving car for driving too slowly. The police department said an officer “noticed traffic backing up behind a slow-moving car in the eastbound lane”. The car was traveling at 24mph in a 35mph zone. If we were talking about south Florida, other drivers would have […]