The end of summer is near and as the days get shorter, blustery and colder … it might be time for an island getaway. Perhaps your own island might be nice. The best photo book on the subject? Luxury Private Islands is a great place to start. Every page, a great photograph spread – not […]

And now for something completely different. Sure, we mostly cover tech, computing and fun stuff but a friend mentioned he had to break his appointment for his big Vasectomy because of some crisis at work so I had to forward him this study linking dementia and vasectomy’s – as I’m not a doctor, I cannot […]

There are a million ways to approach this but let’s cut to the chase. There are some people who love to cry we’re at the “peak oil” stage which in theory means production will never be as great as it stands now but that hardly seems the truth. There is plenty of oil left on […]

“Can machines think?” In 1950 mathematician Alan Turing pondered this question and invented an elegant game to answer it: Let a human chat via Teletype with a computer and another human; if the person can’t determine which is the computer, then it meets Turing’s standards for “thinking.” In recent years Turing’s game has taken on […]

If you really want to feel nano, here’s an illustration to make you feel nano … Or from Nikon, a flash movie showing you in a scale our Milky Way to an atom. There’s music & the narration which you might want to turn down & off and wait out the opening intro – then […]