US intelligence and security people are getting alarmed over the sophisticated attacks they are seeing from various nations. Some of them are penetrations into government networks for political reasons, others are for strictly economic espionage reasons, looking for good tech

The Hesperian Foundation has recently published their latest effort "A Community Guide to Environmental Health". The Hesperian Foundation publishes books with an open copyright policy and the topics of their books I believe will be of interest to technocrat readers.

General Motors has been seriously hurting from slumping sales and investor pressure to "do something" about that. So it looks like maybe they are, it appears they are going to fast track push their Volt electric car, and also see

This is pretty funny in a sad way. Various nation's glorious leaders attended one of those important economic meetings, this one called the G8, and on the talk agenda was the global food crisis, as in food shortages, blaming the

So Hans Reiser led police to his wife's remains today. It sounds like he'll get some sort of sentence reduction in exchange for revealing the location of the body. What a sad story, poor Nina, poor kids and Nina's mom.

Most climate researchers think the ice cap on Greenland will steadily erode, and this ice formed on land will be the ice most responsible for any sea level rises. But the impact of where all this new melted water will

When governmental resources are "busy" someplace else, sometimes local volunteers have to make do with what they have in dealing with natural disaster emergencies, such as the recent rash of hundreds of fires in nominally wealthy California.

The city of Ottawa has backed the creating of a plasma gasification facility designed to convert 400 tons of municipal waste a day into electricity. This will be the first large commercial scale example of this type of generating plant

A race car designer who has done lead on such projects as the McClaren F1 machine is tackling the low emissions and high mileage car design problem. He and his team are advancing what they call the T25 project, with

An unexpected form of atomic movement has been observed during experiments run by a coalition of universities. An accelerated hydrogen atom impacts with a deuterium-deuterium molecule, and instead of a backwards bounce or "scatter" as they call it, the atom

Modern science is verifying something known anecdotally to herbalists for centuries. Some herbs have powerful antimicrobial properties, and using small amounts of extracts prepared as additions or even thin films to produce can go a long way to keeping the

Or maybe, it's the saving grace that will turn the evil of "it's just comparative advantage" around to bring jobs back to the first world. China's economy is beginning to self destruct- as high oil prices are now pushing up

Almost everyone alive who speaks English has heard the ending to that common colloquialism and of course it refers to sliced bread, the thing to which other inventions are compared to. Hailed by everyone from home makers to restaurateurs as

With trains it (economy) is all about the grade and radius, with planes it is all lift and drag, with ships it is all about waterline length. Automobiles are different. Unlike planes and trains and ships, cars spend their entire

Where is it? Although there are any number of outlets on the net for views, reviews, rants, opinions and criticisms, none of them can actually be classified as a public space, the town park with the soapbox, for "free speech"

In particular their employee's children. You might not believe what Google charges their own employees for in-house daycare. Of course they contend it is the best in the world, but still..

140 + a barrel oil has rocked the automotive industry, as drivers suffer sticker shock at the pump and are dumping gashogs in favor of fuel sippers. The same thing is happening in the electronics world, features of this or

There is a plan, conceived and being pushed by Japan, to form a major science exchange and research coordination effort among 16 Asian nations, to make them all more competitive with the European Union and the US. They want to

A newer strain of the West Nile virus that has been spreading since 2002 in the Americas is apparently better adapted to higher heat ranges than the original strain first found in 1999. The researchers say that even small temperature

I've been struggling with this one for a while, because it involves talking about my brother, and he didn't ask to get talked about, even though it isn't actually about him, just the difference between him and me. There was