Today the staff of SFRevu, TechRevu, and Gumshoe Review got together for our monthly meeting. Along with catching up on each other and kibitzing about possible changes to our sites and discussion of ways to make our zines better for our readers, we take some time to get to know each other better and to […]
Every once in a while you come across something that just makes you stand (or sit) and stare with your mouth hanging open. Today, for me, it was looking at a satellite photo of an avalanche that occurred on Mars. Just think about it for a minute. Today, we got to see a photo of […]
I saw this report on my favorite tech news site (slashdot.org) and it’s sort of been in my mind swirling around with a lot of other miscellaneous thoughts. The article from the University of Michigan News Service said: A new energy-capturing knee brace can generate enough electricity from walking to operate a portable GPS locator, […]
It turns out that some people don’t learn from their mistakes. From the article in The Future of Things: Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany have found a genetic factor that affects our ability to learn from our errors. The scientists demonstrated that men carrying the […]
Recently some Norwegian and Swiss biologists have made an amazing discovery. After examining genetic material, they found that the non-bacterial life (eukaryotic life) should be listed in four main groups, not the five that are currently listed in textbooks. Many people would find this discovery to be proof that science isn’t very good or doesn’t […]