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“The more you can increase the fear of drugs and crime and welfare mothers and immigrants and aliens and poverty and all sorts of things, the more you control people. Make them hate each other. Be frightened of each other … Continue reading →

Japan set to launch a Solar Sail Space Yacht.

Seriously. There ought to be a superhero — “Darwin Man!” — who appears, bludgeons the wart on humanity into paste — “For the good of all mankind, I apply the rod of Natural Selection!” –  and disappears until necessity calls. … Continue reading →

And it worked! SNERK!

Ahhh, nothing like a law that says “Let me see your papers.”  Just another example of “Conservatives are not Libertarians”. By the way, if you think illegal immigrants are just too lazy to come here legally, you might want to … Continue reading →

First Up, a new material that can: By engineering a metamaterial with such properties, we are opening the door to such unusual—but potentially useful—phenomena as superlensing (high-resolution imaging past the diffraction limit), invisibility cloaking, and the synthesis of materials index-matched … Continue reading →

When they start trying to sneak this into the water supply, or something like that, we are in trouble.  I just know that almost every politician in DC is wondering how to mass produce and distribute this.

What happens when The Four Horsemen get all Philosophical? Courtesy of Tor

but we do experience it on a somewhat smaller scale.