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• North Korea Announces It’s in ‘a State Of War’ With South Korea: More of the Same?

  April 1, 2013 at 12:33pm

  Is it just me, or does that first picture in the article look like PSY leading the NK troops in a gangnam style video?

• What Is the Strange Slime That Appeared in a Nature Reserve After Meteor Event and Is It Related?

  February 21, 2013 at 9:47am

  In reply to Eastinfection.

  LOL. Nice!

• ‘Against Autonomy’: You’ll Never Believe What Cass Sunstein’s Latest Writing Says

  February 20, 2013 at 1:10pm

  “The Truth, apparent to everyone’s eyes how are not blinded by dogmatism, is that men are perhaps weary of Liberty. They have a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for … we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty.”
  – Benito Mussolini, (1934)

  “Man has no rights except those which society permits him to enjoy. From the day of his birth until the day of his death society allows him to enjoy certain so-called rights and deprives him of others; not because society desires especially to favor or oppress the individual, but because its own preservation, welfare, and happiness are the prime considerations.”
  – A. Maurice Low, “What is Socialism? III: An Explanation of ‘The Rights’ Men Enjoy in a State of Civilized Society,” (March 1913)

  The more things change, the more they remain the same.

• The Very Boring Video of the Giant Asteroid Passing Earth That You Probably Don’t Want to Watch

  February 15, 2013 at 4:49pm

  Wow, seriously?? You folks have been way too overstimulated by Hollywood special effects! What did you expect an image of a building sized rock taken from 17,000 miles away to actually look like? Did you expect that giant fantasy rock from Armageddon, with swirling dust clouds and an animal like roar as it passed?? Sheesh!!

  This was real, it was a real story about real science, and it is amazing. BTW, a few years ago the prediction was for it to pass as close as 12,000 miles, so that prediction was off by 5,000 miles. (Don’t scoff… you try to predict the path of a bullet years in advance by watching it move via a telescope in the dark… not easy.) If the variance had been 5,000 miles closer instead of further out, maybe more people would have been excited by it.

• Why Is Love So Hard to Find — Scientifically?

  February 14, 2013 at 10:52am

  In reply to nzkiwi.

  Excellent advise, NZKIWI. I could have used that advise a few decades ago! :-) Fortunately, I did eventually find true love, it just took me a loooong time and fair share of unpleasant relationships. The destination, however, was definitely worth the journey.

• World First: 3D-Printed Human Embryonic Stem Cells

  February 7, 2013 at 10:39am

  In reply to Melika.

  It actually is 3D printing, as described in the original Pop Sci article. “Printing droplets” is a first phase of the technology. They will eventually be able to print layers of “droplets” to form rudimentary tissues. I think they will need to eventually work out how to simultaneously print the cells and a supporting “scaffolding” material, probably using a protein similar to collagen. This will allow for building stable, complex shapes like hearts, kidneys, and pancreases.

  Also, you cannot get unlimited generations out of stem cells. All cells are limited in the number of times they can replicate by the length of their telomeres. Telomeres are chains of molecules at the end of the chromosomes which get shorter with each cell division. Once they get to a certain point, the cell no longer divides. This is one of the reasons we get physically “old”. There is some work being done to artificially lengthen telomeres using an enzyme called telomerase. If successful, this could theoretically be done for adult stem cells before they are used in vivo.

• It’s Baaaack! Google Maps Return to iPhone as an Alternative to ‘Life-Threatening’ Apple Version

  December 13, 2012 at 11:08am

  I never use these apps for driving directions, only to browse the local area for places of interest. (Google Maps has led me astray may times.) I use MotionX GPS Drive on my iPhone, which I find to be better than any dedicated GPS device, including in-dash systems. I also have several other map programs on my phone, including MapQuest, ArcGIS, and a few dedicated metro transit apps for different cities. I will probably download Google Maps (because it is free, so why not) but I am not particularly excited by the announcement. To me, relying on just one app for a task is like having just one arrow in your quiver.

• Have You Heard of the ‘Wiki Weapons Project’ That Plans to Make the 3D Printable Gun Designs Available to All?

  November 28, 2012 at 5:49pm

  Interesting, this would be like a modern, sleeker, .22 version of the FP-45 Liberator. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FP-45_Liberator) I’m not saying this is a good thing, just very interesting.

  In answer to those people wondering how the average person would be able to obtain or afford a 3D printer, the stated goal of the project is to make the CAD file compatible with the RepRap (http://www.reprap.org) 3D printer project, which is a printer designed to be able to reproduce itself. So, theoretically, one person could build a RepRap printer from a kit, make two more printer kits for friends who would, in turn, each make two printers, and so on. The ownership of 3D printers could then grow at a geometric rate.

• Glenn Beck’s Latest Endeavor Is…a Line of Jeans? Yup, and Get the Inspiring Details Here

  October 16, 2012 at 3:40pm

  In reply to paul1776.

  Wow! What a flood of caterwauling on this topic! Folks, chill out.

  No, I can’t afford $129 jeans either… or a $90 canvass work shirt for that matter. So what? There are folks who can, and they will (hopefully) buy these products. Those sales will support American people who are working to make high quality products, and the profits will help fund charitable services. That makes everyone involved in that process happy.

  Then, if enough such people buy these products, and “1791 Supply Co.” steps up production, both supply-and-demand and economy-of-scale will take effect and the products will become more affordable, hopefully down to the under $40 range where I could justify buying a few for myself, which will make me happy.

  All of that is the beauty and the miracle of laissez faire capitalism. People doing what they want to do, making what they want to make, buying what they want to buy, helping who they want to help, everyone is happy and no one is forced to do anything.

  It has taken decades for “Progressives” and socialists to derail the engine of capitalism in this country. It is going to take a lot of time, money, hard work, and patience to get it back on track.

  BTW, designer jeans like Jet and Goldsign go for $200+ online, and I doubt they are made from scratch in America, by Americans, or that much of that money goes to any charity. I also think these jeans represent a far more American fashion statement… Liberty, Capitalism, and Compassio

• Glenn Beck’s Latest Endeavor Is…a Line of Jeans? Yup, and Get the Inspiring Details Here

  October 16, 2012 at 10:18am

  In reply to Yankee.

  @Yankee… well said.

  BTW, designer jeans like Jet and Goldsign go for $200+ online, and I doubt they are made from scratch by Americans, or that much of that money goes to any charity. I agree with you that 1791 jeans offer a more powerful, and American, fashion statement… Freedom.

  I hope they are a huge success.