science

If a virus can be in two states at once, can I?

When you work from home, no one hears you sneeze. Which is kind-of too bad, because if I had to be in the office to work right now, I would be home lying on the couch in my PJs. As it is, of course, I'm home slumping on the couch and tippity-tapping away on my laptop keyboard. So, here I am...

Happy 40th birthday, computer mouse!

Today the computer mouse celebrates its 40th anniversary.

Pictured is version 1.0, held held by inventor

g-speak: Oblong brings the “Minority Report” operating system to science reality

William Gibson noted recently that the cyberpunk fiction he'd been writing over the past quarter century has now become science fact. Pattern Recognition and Spook Country are both set in near-futures with technology and social norms that...

What is Blog Action Day? A chance to help fight global poverty.

Blog Action Day is, according to its founders, "an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day."

Rapping about CERN’s Large Hadron Collider? Not the end of the world as we know it.

Need a breath of fresh air and humor heading into the weekend? Check out this hilarious video of the Large Hadron Rap on YouTube. Hat tip to Cosmos Magazine for the

What is the history of the ARPANET? A 1972 documentary tells the story of the birth of the Internet

"The Heralds of Resource Shaping" on Google Video tells the story of the origins of the Internet. At thirty minutes, this documentary is a bit longer than the average online video (or attention span) but well worth the time...

Video: Exploring presence technology with tele-immersive dance in cyberspace

Often the title of a video alone raises an eyebrow. Today's video selection certainly does -- it's a presentation from two tele-immersion labs, one at UC Berkeley's Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the...

Video: IC Innovations at the Design-Manufacturing Interface

This lecture from the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) at UC Berkeley describes how the manufacture design of integrated...

Video: Ted Nelson, hypertext and the Web

In this Google TechTalk, Ted Nelson discusses implementing the original hypertext concept and how transclusion should be used now to fulfill its original...

Where are my “Jumper” cables? Darth Vader, MIT and the science of teleportation.

There's no question that living in Cambridge and writing about technology has its benefits. The city is swimming in startups, geeky events and plugged-in discussions. Last month, I was lucky enough to score an invitation to a Q&A session with two distinguished MIT physicists focused upon the...