Technology

A Future for Our Planet. Requiem for Astronaut Mary Cleave

A woman 99.9% of us have never heard of, has just died. Yet what we owe her is incalculable. You see, NASA Shuttle Mission Specialist Mary Cleave didn’t use her time in orbit staring at the vast and hypnotic majesty of space. She focused her attention on the mess below her. Namely the human-triggered deterioration […]

Linda Yaccarino. Tech’s Biggest Loser in 2023

Remember Ted Turner? He was the media darling of the seventies, eighties and early nineties. He created the revolutionary TV news concept called CNN. Then he bought the Atlanta Braves baseball franchise and turned it into a World Series champion. He even skippered an America’s Cup victory – then, the highest profile yacht race in […]

The Inaugural Dialogue Between Humans and Whales

The noteworthy conversation in the original whale dialect may pave the way for forthcoming whale-human communication. In a recent publication in Peer Magazine, scientists from the University of California Davis, Alaska Whale Foundation, and SETI collaborated to engage in communication with whales. Conversing with a Humpback Whale The team’s historic 20-minute discussion with Twain, a […]

When and Why Did Conservatism Become Extremism?

Social Media App Parler Returns Today’s announcement about the unshuttering of controversial conservative social media platform Parler has raised some fairly profound social questions. The first question being how on earth can you write ‘conservative’ immediately after ‘controversial’. The app, which was thrown out of Google and Apple Online stores, became a megaphone for everything […]