Dr. Jerry Burger has replicated some aspects of Stanley Milgram's famous experiment and found that people are just as inclined to obey authority, even if it means inflicting pain on others. Milgram had found that...
My picks for 2008: Top 11 People and lists reporting on and/or predicting breakthroughs in Science and Technology. You’ll notice I cheated a lot; but, I still left a LOT of stuff out: 1) Jan-Dec 2008...
PlayingForChange.com presents the the song "Stand by Me" performed collectively by street musicians around the world. Human love and technology breaking down barriers- priceless rendition. "From the...
A new report by the Senate Armed Services Committee concludes "senior US officials" sought how to ways to legally torture, to redefine the law and torture, and authorized use of practices on detainees. The Bush Administration has tried to blame abuse of detainees on "a few...
December 6, I attended the InternetForEveryone.org coalition's first town hall, in Los Angeles, CA. Organized by Free Press, they are seeking input and participation from everyone interested in the future of the...
An open-source opscan vote-counting machine created by concerned citizen Mitch Trachtenburg has exposed that Diebold-Premier machines didn't count 200 votes in Humboldt County, CA, as reported in the Times-Standard. The Diebold-Premier machines neglected to count the 200...
Bush gave an interview to ABC's Charlie Gibson, in which Bush referred to the "intelligence failure" about WMD as his "biggest regret". MediaMatters.org, supposedly a right-wing spin watchdog, ignores PNAC and pre-Bush Administration Iraq War plans, but notes the corporate...
A new study from the Committee to Protect Journalists reveals the majority of journalists in prison around the world are web-based; 45% are bloggers or web-based media- print media comprise 42% of the total. China, Cuba and Burma are the worse offenders. Many are imprisoned...
Jon Gold acknowledges that the 9/11 Truth Movement might be wrong about some things. Personally, just from what’s on Gold's list, I think the 9/11 victim’s family members and the Peoples of the USA and the World are right to demand full investigation into his...
Science and technology researcher Eric Drexler, on his new blog Metamodern.com, comments on the history and evolution of the Scientific Method. Hypothesis followed by experiments has been a mainstay, even a dogmatic paradigm in Science. However, with today's computing...
This article in New Scientist features interviews with people who've green-powered their homes by making them energy efficient and using solar, wind, hydroelectric, etc. Storage is still a problem- space and cost- but improvements are being made and things are getting...
According to the Associated Press, their review of regulatory documents shows that the Bush Administration was well aware of the risk to the economy and financial markets of their regulatory decisions, but decided to...
SecondLife.com, or Second Life, is an interactive "internet-based virtual world", which people enter in the form of a digital "avatar". The visual quality and number of environments, options and opportunities...
A pro-impeachment 9 inch ornament will be hanging on the White House Christmas tree this year. Seattle artist Deborah Lawrence was commissioned to create something for Rep. Jim McDermott's district, so she created a...
By Erik Larson According to their “About” page, Change.org aims to be “the central platform informing and empowering movements for social change around the most important issues of our time”, but they are censoring support for investigating the causes of 9/11, “the...