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Cars

Vacuuming Up the Competition

By Posted on 6.24.2008 6 Comments
British industrial designer James Dyson made a fortune turning a pedestrian household appliance into a fashion item for suburban strivers. Box-store shoppers recognize his bagless vacuum cleaner by that future-sexy, ultra-maneuverable yellow orb that stands in for wheels. Now, according to the UK's Daily Mail Dyson is turning his attention from closet to garage: his firm is reportedly developing an electric car.

11.24.2008 at 01:30am - Comment by evil03mustang

Dyson's engineering prowess is nothing short of spectacular. Should he co-design a new type of electric motor, it would change everything we know about electric cars. Personally, I like the idea of instant torque. Gasoline-powered cars will do just fine until a suitable replacement is called for by the BUYING PUBLIC. Don't let the media hype turn you into self-loathing fraidycats. Technology will progress naturally and without force, and fossil fuel use will eventually taper off as far as personal transportation is concerned. Dyson's forthcoming electric motor could get people excited about the POWER potential of electrics... and by that self-selling trait people would naturally lose interest in internal combustion. People like to go fast. The government and politics ought to have nothing to do with it. If the buying public calls for it, it will succeed. If the buying public hates it, it will fail. If a president forces it upon us, it will fail.
The Environment

The Amphibial Canary is Dead

By Taylor Hengen Posted on 11.23.2008 7 Comments
While canaries are yet to raise the red flag on pesticide exposure, new research from the University of Pittsburgh shows that "ten of the world's most popular pesticides can decimate amphibian populations when mixed together even if the concentration of the individual chemicals are within limits considered safe." 'Decimate', here, is not hyperbole.

11.24.2008 at 01:18am - Comment by evil03mustang

Uh-oh. As soon as CNN/NBC/MSNBC/ABC/BBC gets hold of this "information" you can count on them using it as further propaganda to make us even more self-loathing as humans. As it is, we already have people that refuse to bathe in some sort of failed attempt to apologize to the planet. What's next? Will we be feasting on our own feces to "save the rivers?" When the Earth is done with us, it will shake us off like fleas. Nothing we do good or "bad" is going to prevent the end of civilization. It's going to happen. Big deal. There's a whole lot of "Chicken Little" going on, and I smell a rat.
Cars

A 1,000 MPH Car

By Mike Spinelli Posted on 10.23.2008 3 Comments

11.24.2008 at 01:14am - Comment by evil03mustang

...and how will your increased rear track and the associated drag it will induce help anything? If it goes wrong, the wider rear could turn a rolling crash into an end-over-end crash. With flying debris. Hundreds of pounds hurtling in any variety of directions and traveling at supersonic speeds.... Beyond that, if the car is to go supersonic, to what extent would the widened rear be engineered to withstand the stresses of such speed and the aerodynamic requirements of dealing with sonic booms? Not saying you're wrong, though..
Science

Suicide is (Relatively) Painless

By Taylor Hengen Posted on 11.14.2008 13 Comments
While previous studies on chronic pain and suicide have focused on subjects already receiving treatment for their pain, a recent study, published in the November/December issue of the journal of General Hospital Psychiatry, drew upon a broader pool of subjects.

11.24.2008 at 12:39am - Comment by evil03mustang

Strange that nobody mentioned praying to god for help. Has nobody any faith these days???
Entertainment & Gaming

The Media Bug

By Posted on 4.2.2009 2 Comments
Some people may not think of artists as being scientifically minded or scientists as caring about the arts, but it's a surprisingly common crossover. Look at Richard Feynman- he won the Nobel Prize for physics and loved painting... and bongo drums. David X. Cohen, who has a BA in physics from Harvard and an MS in computer science from Berkeley, is most well known as the co-creator and executive producer of Futurama, a FOX tv show set 1000 years in the future. Enter Christina Hurtado, PopSci.com's new columnist.

11.24.2008 at 12:23am - Comment by evil03mustang

The media has been used to induce mass hysteria for many years. The media has also been used to promote unproven theory for many years. The people who rely on the mass media / Alphabet networks for their "information" ought to be checking facts for themselves. Talk to other humans. 2 examples: The current "Green" Fad. Yes, it's a fad and the most successful marketing campaign in the history of the world. Why and how does it work? It's easy to make somebody question their planet awareness. Most people never thought about it before, so when you start telling everyone that they're choking the planet, they immediately believe you out of ignorance. And then you sell these people your products and get filthy rich. Second example: The Palin / SNL debacle. Nobody had heard of Mrs. Palin until the alphabet-soup networks vaguely mentioned her. And then... SNL parodied the woman to death. The parodies made headlines. The headlines told the story that the left-leaning mass media wanted people to hear, and as such Mrs. Palin and Mr. McCain never had a chance. Today's people are ignorant and believe the one-sided news that they are spoon-fed. FOX news and talk radio are mocked. Why? Because they disagree with the primary media outlets? So it's okay that these primary media spinners are trying (and have been for years) to shut down the opposition entirely? If there is no opposition, what does that leave us with? One media source. We will be forced to believe whatever they tell us, because we will be silenced if we disagree. That's not free. That's not MY America.
Entertainment & Gaming

Scientists Praise Pot

By Posted on 4.2.2009 9 Comments
Also in our links: hairy children, swimming turtles, aliens, and more.

11.24.2008 at 12:03am - Comment by evil03mustang

Everybody I know that uses or has used cannabinoids either still lives with mom and dad, lives out of their car, or is a graphic designer and lives in a loft apartment in some city.... And it's hard to find a pothead that's actually capable of remembering ANYTHING for longer than five seconds. Here it goes again, another round of '60's love-children trying to gain favor for their favorite ambition-killing substance. Way to go, hippies. The '60's are over and they aren't coming back.
Entertainment & Gaming

Knock Knock: Who's Funnier? Republicans or Democrats?

By Rachel Durfee Posted on 4.2.2009 15 Comments
If a man walks into a bar….who laughs? Liberals or conservatives? Dan Ariely, a psychologist at Duke University, and Elisabeth Malin, a student at Mount Holyoke College, looked into just that question in a recent Boston study. The two came up with a list of 22 jokes – conventional, quirky, corny, clever, etc. – and tracked the reactions of about 300 people who were asked to rate the jokes on a scale of 1 (not funny at all) to 9 (hilarious).

11.23.2008 at 11:50pm - Comment by evil03mustang

Conservatives have a natural tendency to not take themselves too seriously, as they are more likely to be guided by their faith in god and not necessarily driven by their own gratification. Liberals, on the other hand, believe they have all the answers and as such take themselves and their beliefs far too seriously. Contrarily, the funniest people I know are liberals. They take themselves far too seriously far too much of the time and the end result is someone so out of touch with reality that they speak nothing but nonsense. I.E. Her name sounds like "Machine Got ROFL Show..." Hilarious!
Entertainment & Gaming

Shades of the Future

By Brett Zarda Posted on 4.2.2009 9 Comments
Looks like Lance Armstrong might have a new pair of sunglasses for his comeback tour. The blogs lit up in the past few weeks with attention surrounding a pair of Nike sunglasses that increase a rider's peripheral vision from the standard 180 degrees to up to 240. Given Lance's pension for wearing yellow, the new specs could come in handy. Only problem is that Nike isn't actually making the glasses. Confused? We dug into the mystery.

11.23.2008 at 11:41pm - Comment by evil03mustang

"Given Lance's pension for wearing yellow, the new specs could come in handy." I expect better word usage from such an authority as PopSci. pen⋅chant [pen-chuhnt; Fr. pahn-shahn] Show IPA Pronunciation –noun a strong inclination, taste, or liking for something: a penchant for outdoor sports. pen⋅sion [pen-shuhn; Fr. pahn-syawn for 3] Show IPA Pronunciation noun, plural -sions [-shuhnz; Fr. -syawn for 3] Show IPA Pronunciation , verb –noun 1. a fixed amount, other than wages, paid at regular intervals to a person or to the person's surviving dependents in consideration of past services, age, merit, poverty, injury or loss sustained, etc.: a retirement pension. 2. an allowance, annuity, or subsidy. 3. (in France and elsewhere in continental Europe) a. a boardinghouse or small hotel. b. room and board. –verb (used with object) 4. to grant or pay a pension to. 5. to cause to retire on a pension (usually fol. by off). Lance's [what???] for wearing yellow??? I don't get it.