Steps Magazine has an article discussing animal-vegetable hybrids, genetic engineering, and a suggested psychological aversion to mixing the two. I’m not sure I buy into the aversion part, but its a good read. The paragraphs dealing with Cleve Backster were particularly interesting. Also, there are lots of pictures of caterpillars with mushrooms growing out of […]

This guy is calling out all the environmentally oriented purchasers out there. A good piece on the economics of green purchasing. The “killing babies” part comes from the calculation of keeping third world babies alive per month versus the added cost of green technologies. Although that does bring up the point that saving babies rarely […]

A recent article in the technology section of The Guardian describes a Japanese initiative to put musical grooves onto Japanese roads. Here in Ontario, major highways have grooves in the shoulders that make a loud noise when you drive over them, with the intent to inform the driver that they are driving off the road. […]

A recent article in the technology section of The Guardian describes a Japanese initiative to put musical grooves onto Japanese roads. Here in Ontario, major highways have grooves in the shoulders that make a loud noise when you drive over them, with the intent to inform the driver that they are driving off the road. […]