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“Every male born after 1980 that I speak with about 3D printing asks if you can have your face scanned, printed out, and added to an action figure. Currently, the answer is an unfortunate no. Existing 3D printers don’t have source...

“As I read Incest, I realized that something which I had always taken to be unique, the voice of Myra Breckinridge, was actually that of Anaïs in all the flowing megalomania of the diaries. Of course, I had not read source...

“SAN FRANCISCO CA, December 3 - The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization behind Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org), today announced a new project designed to make it easier to contribute articles to the the free, volunteer-written encyclopedia. The organization has received a grant source...

“153 scientists from 20 countries participated in the survey of Espiritu Santo in the South Pacific, scouring caves, mountains, reefs, shallows, and forests collecting species. Out of over 10,000 species collected, the researchers are predicting that as many as 2000 source...

“RPyC (IPA:/ɑɹ paɪ siː/, pronounced like are-pie-see), or Remote Python Call, is a transparent and symmetrical python library for remote procedure calls, clustering and distributed-computing. RPyC makes use of object-proxying, a technique that employs python's dynamic nature, to overcome the source...

“This Zoetrope was produced by the artists at Pixar to coincide with a show at the Museum of Modern Art and is currently on display at the Disney California Adventure hotel. Hundreds of little models are placed on a spinning source...

“Below you will find the three part documentary “The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom” by Adam Curtis, “a British television documentary maker who has during the course of his television career worked as a writer, producer, director source...

From iPod and BlackBerry to Twitter and Wikipedia, we take a look at the processes and people who came up with the names for these iconic tech products.

“ The supermassive black holes located at the center of galaxies are similar in many ways to hearts, pumping out energy in the similar way our organ pumps blood. They do this at regular intervals of time, to regulate the source...

“November 26th, 2008 marked one of the watershed days in Indian History as probably the single most significant event in India in the last 15 years played itself out - the terrorist attacks in Mumbai. As the news started coming source...

“Keep in mind this article was written at the height of his belief in objectivism, which advocates laissez-faire capitalism. The underlying reason he was advocating for a gold standard was to push this laissez-faire approach. The same laissez-faire approach he source...

“I'm working on a side-project with Rob Conery, Dave Ward and others and I want to be able to do a search immediately as the user arrives on the site, using their location derived from their IP Address. I want source...

“There’s a real problem with content management systems. I’m not talking about the big enterprise platforms. I’m talking about the basic content management software that simple web sites need and use. They often do too much. That’s right. Modern content source...

“Recall please the oil shocks of 1973 and 1979, when prices of oil went up 140%, and the Saudi’s demanded payment in greenbacks, and all those greenbacks went into the Federal Reserve and out again to low interest loans to source...

“One of the great advantages of having an iPhone or iPod touch with such ubiqutious Internet access is that it makes a great research tool. Although the Safari browser on the iPhone or iPod touch can allow you to surf source...