• Entertainment & Gaming

    Gallery: 20 Sexy Screen Scientists

    By Posted on 5.18.2009 14 Comments

    5.21.2009 at 01:18am - Comment by CarpeNoctu

    If I hadn't seen that there are some modern shows up there I wouldn't have said anything, but since there are... What about Dr. Gregory House from House (Hugh Laurie)? And Dr. Charlie Eppes (David Krumholtz) or Dr. Amita Ramanujan (Navi Rawat) from Numb3rs? And Anyone from any of the C.S.I family of shows (they seem to be trying to get a franchise on pretty geeks)? Where's Dr. Jacob Hood (Rufus Sewell) from Eleventh Hour? And how about the absolutely edible Abby Sciuto (Pauley Perrette) from NCIS? I'm not even going to get into the movies... I'd be here all day! Suffice to say, this is a very incomplete list.

  • The Environment

    Burning the Tide

    By Kalee Thompson Posted on 9.25.2008 11 Comments

    Alan Burns breaks the surface with a huge grin on his face, his baggy black wetsuit hanging off his body like walrus skin. It’s a scorching February afternoon, and we’re floating in the clear blue water of the Indian Ocean. To our left is the Australian resort island of Rottnest. To our right—just beyond Burns’s dazzling white yacht—is several thousand miles of open sea. And beneath us, the kelp forest where we had been diving moments before is swaying to the rhythm of the waves.

    9.27.2008 at 01:14am - Comment by CarpeNoctu

    The great thing about men like Burns and Branson is that they can afford to create whatever they think of... The problem with them is that they can afford to create whatever they think of. If they can afford to create this tool for extracting energy from the water like this, or hydrogen cars, or whatever other big, wonderful, impractical and expensive idea they have they go with it. They don't think like poor people, and they don't consider that things like this will still cost people rather large amounts of money for the creation of usable energy, and for transportation of said energy. I've been working on an invention for nearly a decade that would create unlimited energy, and can be large enough to fuel an entire city, small enough to power a cell phone, and can actually be placed in any home allowing the home to produce it's own energy. Unfortunately, I don't have the money these men do... Think smaller, Mr. Burns... Not like smaller tech or smaller ideas or smaller projects... Smaller people with smaller budgets. Quit working on things that will make you more money and start working on things that will free us all from paying people for our power needs...



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