This bird flu thing is beginning to get to me. Here’s an article from Forbes that says it all in the title: "US Ill Prepared  for Flu Outbreak: Report." The United States is unprepared for a global flu pandemic, according to a draft of a federal report, which predicts a worst-case scenario that could lead to the deaths of 1.9 ...

Here’s an article about how some theorists at U Penn are thinking about how to make common electronic circuit components on a nanoscale that run on light instead of big, fat electrons. Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have theorized a means of shrinking electronics so they could be run using light instead of electricity. In the search to create ...

The Economist commented on the changing nature of journal publishing. They say journal publishing is a $7 to $11 billion business annually. So idealistic ideas about wide dissemination of knowledge has been stalled by all the publishers with big stakes in controlled distribution. But the people who pay for research–you and me, fellow taxpayer–and nonprofit funders are putting the heat ...

A week or so ago Intel held a conference to get software and equipment developers excited about its vision of the future. The nut of the vision: wireless broadband and plenty of it. Intel is pushing WiMax, a version of wireless transmission that’s sort of WiFi on steroids. Instead of communicating with your laptop for a max of a couple ...