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Share Mechanical engineering and robotic surgery hasn’t yet reached the level where it can completely replace trained and skilled doctors, surgeons and surgical technologists, but it has gotten off to a good start. There are machines… Read more

Share Science and Religion… here are two things that do not go together like birds of a feather, or peas in a pod, or pork chops in applesauce.  But the two have to live together one way or another seeing as the world is technologically and… Read more

The history of the international fraternity of Freemasonry is riddled with secrets. Attempting to make a definitive account of its beliefs, rituals and influence would prove to be an extremely difficult, if not impossible, task. By their very… Read more

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If you are scared by the booming industry of doctors and hospitals and fake flu shots — you should be. Every generation opts to undergo ‘cures’ which are not really cures at all, but ridiculous charades with no medical effects whatsoever (except… Read more

Traditional world maps have a size bias, it seems… Image: Kai… Read more

Image: World Economic Forum/Flickr BP CEO Tony Hayward has admitted that BP made mistakes early on in dealing with the Gulf Coast oil spill. But he defended BP’s overall response to the crisis. The Guardian has more: …in a bullish… Read more

Share Natural disasters often strike without warning, causing death and destruction which usually results in significant financial devastation as well. While the total economic impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake is not yet known, the cost is… Read more

If you’re a chef, musician, cleaner, model, or just anyone, you should be afraid. Very afraid. You’re about to lose your job – and when robots rule the employment roost, don’t be surprised if you end up losing your life too… Note: the following… Read more

Image: El Economista Oliver Williamson and Elinor Ostrom both won this year’s Nobel Peace Prizes in Economic Science. The New York Times has more on the research that won the professors their honors: Mr. Williamson’s work focuses on the… Read more

Wolfram Alpha, a new search engine based on Wolfram Research’s Mathematica formula, is due for release this month. If you watch the demo above, you’ll see that Wolfram Alpha is able to process questions in natural language–the way humans ask… Read more

There’s nothing quite like a good plague scare to get people pontificating. Here’s a roundup of swine flu opinion from the past few days. From a scientific standpoint, it’s apparently not a question of if, but when a flu pandemic will hit…. Read more

Pharmaceutical companies Merck and Schering Plough are merging to create another pharmaceutical giant (a la Wyeth and Pfizer in late January). MarketWatch has the details: Pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co., Inc on Monday said it will buy… Read more

With cloned steaks hitting supermarket shelves, cloning is gaining momentum as a major (ahem) cash cow. Scientists have been effectively cloning animals since the early 1960s, when a Chinese embryologist cloned an Asian carp. It’s just a matter of… Read more