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How the decade changed education
How the decade changed education HERALD-TRIBUNE Tiffany Lankes Christopher O'Donnell Published: Saturday, December 26, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, December 25, 2009 at 8:36 p.m. The big theme in education for the past decade: accountability. Heightened state and federal pressure to do well on standardized tests prompted schools to try...
Dec 26, 2009, 6:10 pm - truesee

"America a weapons supermarket for terrorists, inquiry finds
America a weapons supermarket for terrorists, inquiry finds Undercover inspectors manage to buy high-grade gear including nuclear triggers and evade export bans Daniel Nasaw in Washington guardian.co.uk, Monday 8 June 2009 11.48 BST The US is a virtual supermarket for terrorists and foreign governments seeking high-end military technology, including components that ca...
Jun 9, 2009, 9:14 pm - konane

"Defense Spooks: Let's Control Enemy Minds
Two very interesting articles about mind control. Live links for reference. _________ Pentagon Preps Soldier Telepathy Push By Katie Drummond May 14, 2009 10:46 am Source Wired.com...
May 16, 2009, 1:06 pm - konane

Oracle to buy Sun for $7.4 billion
Oracle to buy Sun for $7.4 billion Deal comes after IBM abandoned its bid for networking equipment maker The Associated Press updated 11:51 a.m. ET, Mon., April 20, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Oracle Corp. snapped up computer server and softwar...
Apr 20, 2009, 12:55 pm - NBey6

Dreams May No Longer Be A Secret
A Japanese research team has revealed it had created a technology that could eventually display on a computer screen what people have on their minds, such as dreams. Researchers at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories succeeded in processing and displaying images directly from the human brain, they said in a study unveiled ahead of publication in the...
Dec 16, 2008, 11:23 am - NBey6

Tennessee To Ban Texting While Driving
Americans are adept at adopting new technology, and texting (sending a text message via a cell phone) is one of the new tools that has been easily learned and utilized among a population that seems driven to constant communication -- and in many cases, driven to distraction. Take the rise in incidents in which someone writing or reading a text message while driving ends up causing a bad wreck. Several states have enacted or are con...
Feb 21, 2008, 10:07 pm - LOTTOMIKE

On this day in history ..
On this day in history .. 1813 - Americans capture Frenchtown Canada 1840 - New Zealand settled by British 1850 - Alta California becomes a daily paper 1st such in Calif 1905 - Bloody Sunday; Russian demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops 1939 - Aquatic Park dedicated 1943 - Battle of Anzio Allies stopped on the beach 1947 - 1st coml TV station west of Mississippi opens Hollywood Ca 1949 - Chinatown telephone exchange closed 1968 -...
Jan 22, 2008, 9:38 pm - angelm

Are you ready for this?
I can't believe what I just read in the Sun Sentinel today. An employer wants to put ID chips in workers? This is the same technology used to identify lost pets! I don't have time to write a long blog entry, but I wanted to share this with you. I worked at a company last summer where I signed in with my fingerprints. They said that time slips were outdated since they can be altered or punched by other employees. At first I thought This is cool&quo...
Sep 1, 2007, 2:53 pm - justxploring

The OTHER business I would start if I hit the PB
My own research lab HyperSoniQ Innovations and the first order of business is research into ideas I have about alternative energy vehicles, and alternative energy in general. This would be the springboard for every idea I have had that would require research and development to get to market (or just to get to a patent which can be licenced to a manufacturer). Once a decent management team is in place at the skatepark, here is where I would spend the majority of my time...
Jun 23, 2007, 11:55 am - hypersoniq

There's Something "Dishy" Going On....
Ah.................satellite tv. The wonders of modern technology. Who ever thought we'd be able to pause at commercials, make a seven course meal, mow the lawn, catch up on the phone with long lost Aunt Myrtle and come back not missing a single word of our program? No more missed punch lines or car chases or that final minute of a who-done-it . I almost can't remembe...
Jun 7, 2007, 11:08 am - lottolaughs