Archive for January 17th, 2010

Six minutes to midnight refers to the time on the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ “doomsday clock.”
If six minutes to midnight sounds bad, consider that until just recently, it was five minutes to midnight.
The scientist give two reasons for this.  One seems reasonable, the other does not.
The first has to do with efforts to reduce [...]

Do you really need “cyber friends”?  Do you really need to show the world who your friends are in order to validate them, or who you are? Is the time spend gawking at or on facebook, with all the amazing things to do out in the physical (or even virtual) world today, really time well [...]