View What Do You Call This Here Online Journal-like Thing? Why, it’s a blog, of course! Which happens to be the word most often looked up online during 2004, according to dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster. The current edition of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary doesn’t contain an entry for “blog,” but in the… by Herb Brody 2004-12-02T01:23:00-05:00
View Dean Disses Touchscreen Voting You’re one of the most famous politicians in the US, and you’ve got a new syndicated column in which you can pontificate on pretty much anything you want. What do you write about first? If you’re Howard Dean, you focus… by Herb Brody 2004-06-02T06:58:00-04:00
View Write Like a Lobotomized Weasel The Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776. Water is composed of oxygen and hydrogen. The square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the square of the two sides. And a persuasive essay has exactly 5 paragraphs: one to… by Herb Brody 2004-05-25T07:02:00-04:00
View Where's the Wireless? As wireless networking becomes a more and more important amenity, it has become helpful to know where you’ll be able to tap into a publicly accessible WiFi signal. Yahoo! Maps now offers just that: Just click on the “WiFi Hotspots”… by Herb Brody 2004-05-20T03:50:00-04:00
View Death of a Cold Fusion Proponent Eugene Mallove, a science writer who for the past 15 years had dedicated himself to advancing the case for cold fusion, was murdered Friday in an apparent robbery. Mallove, 56, was founder and president of the New Energy Foundation and… by Herb Brody 2004-05-17T11:33:00-04:00
View Not Such Sound Science For the last decade, industry groups opposed to governmental regulations have often claimed the mantle of “sound science”–implying that those who insist on, say, reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, or restrictions on smoking in restaurants, or bans on dioxin emissions,… by Herb Brody 2004-05-10T02:09:00-04:00
View Putting a New Spin on Computing Physicists often like to remind people that our simple-minded picture of electrons is woefully naive. Electrons aren’t so much tiny little particles whizzing around an atomic nucleus as they are a kind of fuzzy wave function–a probabilistic distributions of electric… by Herb Brody 2004-04-27T05:49:00-04:00
View Supreme Smackdown on Municipal Telecom In what could be a blow to the rollout of fiberoptics-to-the-home, the Supreme Court has ruled that states can stop cities and towns from going into the telecommunications business. The court upheld a Missouri law prohibiting municipalities from offering local… by Herb Brody 2004-03-25T06:26:00-05:00
View No Drivers. No Winners. Fifteen driverless vehicles came to the starting line on Saturday. None finished the 142 mile Los Angeles-to-Las Vegas course, and so the Pentagon’s $1 million “Grand Challenge” prize will go unclaimed. The best performances were the 7.4 miles achieved by… by Herb Brody 2004-03-15T11:30:00-05:00
Intelligent Machines Taming the Terahertz T-rays could be more versatile than x-rays. by Herb Brody 2003-06-01T00:00:00-04:00