It has been quite an exciting four years for the American economy.  I guess you can say that a lot has happened in such a wild and rocky period.  There are a lot of similarities between this year and 2008.  Both years are leap years.  Both years have an Olympics planned in them.  Also, the [...]

Tags: 2008, 2012, Dow

Looking up in the sky becomes more and more important as humanity discovers the potential celestial hazards that are whizzing by Earth at supersonic speed with no regard for the safety of our little blue planet.  It is in no way uncommon that planetary bodies float around in space with the constant concern of rogue [...]

Tags: asteroid, Earth, sun

One of the most intriguing aspects of nano-science in the bizarre world of the super small is its presentation of the atom and how it functions within the molecule that acts as its own colliding orbital systems.  Widely believed to be nonexistent for millennia throughout human history, the atom serves as a testament for how [...]

Tags: atom, IBM, microscope, molecule, nanotechnology

Sometimes medical advancements present a solution while creating new problems. This sentiment can go all the way back to the discovery of fire. The pleasant heat and light of a soft glow of a warm fireplace can quickly turn into an inferno of melting despair. Basically you would have to take the good with the [...]

Tags: antibiotics, bacteria, food, livestock, MRSA

You can really feel the rush throughout your body.  It is not the same old familiar blood rushing surge like yesterday’s adrenaline that is coursing and pulsating through your veins this time.  You feel something powering all over the inner workings of your system but it isn’t something you were born with.  This really isn’t [...]

Tags: health, implants, nanotechnology, surgery

On any journey, grand or small, one must search for the proper provisions.  You need to figure out what it is you will be eating and drinking along the way.  If it is a short trip to the local convenience store, maybe you don’t need to bring anything to eat.  If the trip happens to [...]

Tags: food, Mars, menu

Move over Kobe beef.  There is a new tasty ground in town and it isn’t raised, it’s grown.  Don’t bother satisfying your hankering hunger with just any old slice of sirloin.  There is better game around.  This is definitely not your regular old chip off the old block of meat.  Gone are the days of bovine beef [...]

Tags: beef, humanity, lab, meat, stem cells

Call it a weird case of prehistoric nostalgia.  It seems like what was once frozen and lost under the icy cold hands of time’s ticking clock resurfaces with quite an impressive force.  Recently, it was a mention of a possible woolly mammoth sighting in the streams of Siberia.  As it turns out, that region was [...]

Tags: ancient, flower, prehistoric, woolly mammoth

It is Mardi Gras everybody.  You know it as that day of the year when people like to test their stomachs and their gastrointestinal limits.  This has become a time of celebration and for that reason it is called Fat Tuesday, pronounced in French as Mardi Gras, which is similar in sound, but not to [...]

Tags: Brazil, Carnival, Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras, New Orleans, party, Rio de Janeiro

If you look closely you will still be unable to see this latest step in micro-computing.  Nanotechnology is getting another step closer to making me a computer small enough to lug around without me having to use the word lug in my description for carrying it.  It is nanotechnology and it is in accordance with [...]

Tags: nanotechnology, quantum, transistor