New Apple Friend Bar Gives Customers Someone To Talk At About Mac Products

Do not visit web sites if your computer is running Windows. Recent reports indicate that your computer could be taken over by malicious forces. Egypt vs. the Netizins. Model predicts ‘religiosity gene’ will dominate society. OMG. Ooops, did I say that? And finally, the Antikythera Mechanism was a computer built in Greece at around 100…

Climate Science in a Nutshell #9: How Bad Could it Get? from Planet Nutshell on Vimeo. Hat Tip Class M Planet

Creationism may seem like a joke to most atheists. After all, how could the univerese and everything in it be only 6000 years old, when the light from galaxies 10 billian light years away takes (you guessed it) 10 billion years to get here?That was the question I had initially asked when I heard that…

These two things are only indirectly connected: What this all means: On Friday the 4th, Skeptically Speaking will have a pre-recorded interview with Sheril. On that same show, I’ll do a pre-recored installment of “Everything…”. You can go to the link and click on “ask a question”, but do it before Noon EST on Tuesday.…

Fife Wikileaks Hactivists Arrested in UK Police have arrested five people over their alleged roles in an online campaign to support WikiLeaks. Five males – aged 15, 16, 19, 20 and 26 – were arrested under the Computer Misuse Act in raids across the country at 7am this morning, with the suspects held in local…

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Suddenly and for the first time I saw Amanda as a little child wide eyed with both awe and fear, among other children some sitting on the floor, some in chairs, some standing behind desks, eyes trained on a TV monitor and their teacher as the sudden realization dawned that the Space Shuttle Challenger had…

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Researcher and blogger Ash Donaldson joins us for a pre-recorded discussion on the fascinating field of Human Factors Engineering. This multi-disciplinary science draws on anatomy, physiology, physics, psychology and communications research, as it tries to improve the ways that humans interact with technology, and use technology to interact with each other. And health science journalist…

Every year, at least once (for his birthday or for Christmas, depending) I give my father-in-law the same exact presents: A tape measure, a utility knife, and a pencil. This way, when we are working on something like sheet-rocking the kitchen, patching the bullet hole in the roof of the cabin, or installing the invisible…

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

From the NCSE: It’s time to dust off your Darwin costume again: less than a month remains before Darwin Day 2011! Colleges and universities, schools, libraries, museums, churches, civic groups, and just plain folks across the country — and the world — are preparing to celebrate Darwin Day, on or around February 12, in honor…

The BBC us cosing down Douglas Adams Hitchiker’s Guide web site. But there is a plan to get off the planet before it’s too late. So have a beer and read this.

You may or may not have heard the news: There was a major explosion, or set of explosions, with suicide bombers and everything, 31 or more dead, at the Moscow Airport. The details are sketchy. And in a totally unrelated story, but still with an explosion, then there’s this: