Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Cicada 3301

For the past two years, a mysterious online organisation has been setting the world's finest code-breakers a series of seemingly unsolveable problems. But to what end? Welcome to the world of Cicada 3301

Toms River: Cancer Clusters

One of New Jersey’s seemingly innumerable quiet seaside towns, Toms River became the unlikely setting for a decades-long drama that culminated in 2001 with one of the largest legal settlements in the annals of toxic dumping. A town that would rather have been known for its Little League World Series champions ended up making history for an entirely different reason: a notorious cluster of childhood cancers scientifically linked to local air and water pollution. For years, large chemical companies had been using Toms River as their private dumping ground, burying tens of thousands of leaky drums in open pits and discharging billions of gallons of acid-laced wastewater into the town’s namesake river.

Fermi Paradox

Why haven't we been contacted yet ? Maybe it's not that life is rare in the universe... Maybe it's that intelligent life is really rare...

Could we speak the language of dolphins?

Denise Herzing discusses what she learned in 28 years of working with dolphins.

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

My Lai Massacre Remembered

1968, Forty Years Later: My Lai Massacre Remembered.

Neuroscience and Society

As neuroscience starts to explain society's evils...

Last Chimp Standing

Interview with author Chip Walter who wrote "Last Chimp Standing".

Bottlenose Dolphin Rescue

A Bottlenose Dolphin needed help to get a fishing hook and line of it's left pectoral fin...

Will our kids be a different species?

Throughout human evolution, multiple versions of humans co-existed. Could we be mid-upgrade now? Juan Enriquez sweeps across time and space to bring us to the present moment -- and shows how technology is revealing evidence that suggests rapid evolution may be under way.