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Build your own frontier town

A group of people are working on Open Source modular tools that can help communities build a modern village in the third world. It appears that making these tools is on average 8 times cheaper than buying the ready built tools from manufacturers and the group is making the plans for these tools [...]

Cryogenics

Seems like a technique created for food may be applicable to medical use. Scientists are proposing that the technique used to preserve sushi can be used on human organs. Making longer term storage viable.

Normally, when something is frozen ice crystals form and as they form they expand, rupturing the cell walls and [...]

2011 is going to be interesting

With all the upset with the economy, the uselessness of our political masters and they way we are lied too I see more and more people becoming activists.

Now being an activist doesn’t mean that you are like the students going out and objecting because they have to pay for their services. It [...]

Planning for the future

Here is the way our lords and masters plan for the future.

Tilting at windmills. Yet they class this as a success as they don’t generate the electrickery in their country.

Being green still means the same as it did all them years ago. Niave and easily led.

and the wheel continues to [...]

Lack of control

It seems that if you are powerful enough you can ‘nudge’ firms into doing the right thing. Even if the right thing is actually wrong. Cameron is watching carefully.

Wikileaks had one big problem in that it was hosted in the Cloud under Amazons watchful eye. Then all of a sudden it was discovered [...]

Portable security

Here is something to make you more secure that I was looking at doing myself a few years ago but I was unable to get it working at the time. A portable OS.

Now, I know it is simply a USB hard drive. Just like the one we use to store data. You [...]

Life but not as we know it

One thing that SciFi has always done which real science has avoided is to explore the make up of extraterrestrial life. SciFi leads the way with silicon life as well as life made up of energy and life so large our space ships just irritate it as a flea does to us.

Back in [...]

Over engineering

I’ve talked before about how lately we seem to have moved into over engineering things instead of engineering new things. Remember I like things simple.

For over two decades now cars have being getting more and more electronic and more and more dependent on servicing by manufacturers and major garages, effectively driving out the [...]

Science and facts vs feeling good

One is where we use logic and facts to form conclusions and the other is where we form conclusions from what we know is right without those troublesome pesky facts.

I’d always been interested in science since school and used to play about at home. I carried on from school playing with science, electronics [...]

The new pioneers

Hundreds of years ago people walked on to rickety wooden ships and embarked on a journey that they knew they would not return from. They travelled to the Americas and their pioneering spirits and self sufficiency created the best society we have ever known. A golden age started then.

Fast forward to now. Nowhere [...]