Did you know that there is more bacteria in your body than there is, well, anything else? Well it’s true: they’re in our digestive tract, all over our skin, in our teeth, on our tongue, and have even fathered 40 of our own human genes.
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For years, Star Trek and other sci-fi gadgets have lept out of the screen and into our lives. But while mobile phones, video-conferencing, real-time systems monitoring and online collaboration are now staples of modern life,  alien life has remained a fixture in the sci-fi closet.
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By the time Al Gore released his Oscar winning documentary “An Inconvenient Truth“, few skeptics were left that the world’s climate was changing. Now, Ray Kurzweil – one of the most prolific inventors of the 20th century -  is releasing an eminent documentary of his own.
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There was a time when newspapers were at the pinnacle of information technology. The influence of the newspaper on the evolution of human consciousness is not to be underestimated; for a start, its ability to be rewritten every day helped dilute the power and finality of the book to shape and transport human constructs...
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Beware of those who answer a closed question with a monologue of platitudes in a vain effort to disagree with something they clearly believe. Enter Mike Pence (R, Ind.), another politician who prostitutes his leadership to his political contributors.
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The EU Commissioner Viviane Reding, the EU’s Internet chief, called for the severing of links between ICANN and the U.S. government. Currently ICANN operates under an agreement with the Commerce Department, and the United States is the only government with oversight of ICANN, which assigns Internet addresses used by more than 1.5 billion Internet...
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