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• Apple vs. the textbook: Can education go paperless?

  Thu Jan 19, 2012
  • The advantages of using an iPad are fairly obvious, but there's no doubt they come with a few caveats simply because they are not books. You don't have to backup a book. Although a book can be damaged, it usually doesn't suffer catastrophic loss when misused.

• Italian cold fusion machine passes another test

  Thu Nov 3, 2011
  • While I presume this could be an elaborate hoax, we should remember the other side of this equation. Power generation is an entrenched large scale business with billions of dollars at stake. History is full of cases of big business squelching competition with dirty tricks.

• Netflix Entering Content Distribution

  Sun Mar 20, 2011
  • I agree. Netflix is only slightly ahead of the coming digital media revolution. In the near future everything that can be digitized will exist in home computers, iPads, PS3s, etc to be instantiated as pictures and sound at our leisure.

• 'Curveball': I lied about WMD to hasten Iraq war

  Tue Feb 15, 2011
  • Waging war based on the account of one man is clearly criminal. I can't believe this was simply stupidity on the part of the Bush administration.

• Gene Roddenberry: The Star Trek Philosophy

  Tue Nov 17, 2009
  • Look at it this way. Imagine a civilization that has replaced most human labor with robotics, and energy is freely available through advanced technology.

• The 'new' NASA will look back at Earth

  Tue Feb 2, 2010
  • I can imagine what Obama's thinking. Let's get NASA pointed back at Earth where things really matter. After all, what's more important to the people of the Earth than Earth itself? So let's keep focused on that.

• Apple tablet could write a new chapter for e-books

  Mon Jan 25, 2010
  • As someone who has four decades of books crammed into large bookcases in three rooms, and who's also contemplating a move, I have a lot of sympathy for this idea. Books are only physical because of convenience. It was either that or make a lot of inconvenient trips to the library.

• What do you think of PlayStation Home?

  Wed Dec 17, 2008
  • My initial experience in Home was similar to strolling through an unsupervised playground for adolescents.  I wasn't surprised by this; in fact I was expecting it.