23/6 - Science/Technology

FAQ: human stem cells

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:11:33 -0500

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first-ever human trials of embryonic stem cell research. Scientists at the Geron Corporation will be injecting special nerve cells, developed from human stem cells, into patients who have suffered severe spinal cord injuries. The subjects will be obs

From The Feed: FoxNews is the John McCain of cable

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:28:45 -0500

Fox is so far behind CNN. A reporter named Trace could barely spit out the Facebook URL so we foxers could write on Fox's wall. Next he also told us to email twitter.com/livedesk, which is a url, not an email address. Trace didn't even use the word "

From The Feed: Asian dude invents the most subservient woman ever

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:22:04 -0500

Science and relationship genius, Le Trung, built himself a lady friend who listens to all commands and has non-functioning legs:

Science wants to kill us more than Al Qaeda

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:12:06 -0400

This morning, after 14 years of preparation and $8 billion dollars, scientists in Geneva activated the Large Hadron Collider, a gigantic supercollider designed to accelerate and smash together protons in an effort to recreate the condition

From The Feed: The next terrorist attack might just totally screw up your next meal, seriously (video)

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:29:48 -0400

On "America's Newsroom" 12-year-old Bill Hemmer talks EMPs:

From The Feed: John McCain, meet The Video Professor (video)

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:52:48 -0400

The Huffington Post's Nico Pitney mashes up John McCain and the Video Professor:

From The Feed: It's not easy being green (video)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:00:38 -0400

Tom Friedman, the NYT columnist and author of "The World is Flat" gave a preview of his new book "Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution -- and How It Can Renew America" at the Aspen Ideas Festival Thursday. Apparently, it's all about how crappy magazine articles can be:

From The Room: New Study of Talk Show Host Brains Calls for Compassion Not Scorn

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:32:46 -0400

"You Wouldn't Ridicule Someone With Parkinson's*, Then Why Mock Anyone With A Brain Disease," says Nobel Prize Nominee.

A new study released by Bio-psychological Medicine (BM) Journal offers clear evidence that the brain of the radio/TV talk show host/pundit, thought to be synthetically in

Drudge slays the left—with punctuation

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:15:50 -0400

From The Room: New Photos from Mars Reveal Ice, Hillary Clinton

Tue, 27 May 2008 08:18:33 -0400

Early photos from NASA's Phoenix Mars landing show flat terrain marked by a polygonal pattern of shallow troughs and pebbles, confirming their expectation that there is ice below the surface that has repeatedly expanded and contracted. Further photos reveal

From The Room: Do Our Virtual Lives Make Our Real Lives Suck?

Thu, 22 May 2008 12:30:27 -0400

The problem with video games and the internet and Web-connected cell phones and giant TVs with surround sound is not that it makes us violent. It's that it makes us bored with reality. If you're under thirty-five like me, answer this question: How long can you sit on a beach and look at the waves? T

From The Feed: Harrison Ford's rainforest ad (video)

Wed, 21 May 2008 14:23:55 -0400

Harrison Ford deadpans his way through a hilarious (yet possibly effective) analogy about how disappearing rainforests affect global warming:

From The Room: Inappropriate Questions for Alan Alda

Wed, 21 May 2008 14:16:05 -0400

Alan Alda really likes science. Like a lot. Who knew? I caught up with him electronically ahead of the World Science Festival to talk about loincloths, physicists and Paris Hilton.

1) Can I cal

From The Feed: Pet cloning, coming to you (video)

Wed, 21 May 2008 13:14:28 -0400

"Good Morning America" reports on a company that clones pets (in California, naturally):

From The Room: Today's Sign of the Apocalypse: Wii Fit

Wed, 21 May 2008 09:33:15 -0400

My new book, Apocalypse How, is about how the world is about to end...and why we should be psyched! It's the first-ever work of apocaly