…where science, futurism, and anything else Stephen finds interesting are thrown together in an informational stew for your consumption. Enjoy! Follow Stephen on Twitter: @stephentgo AMAZON’s E-Books Pull Ahead of Hardcovers… Amazon celebrated last Christmas that they sold more eBooks on that day than hard covers. Now, for the last three months, EBook sales are […]

…where science, futurism, and anything else Stephen finds interesting are thrown together in an informational stew for your consumption. Enjoy! Follow Stephen on Twitter: @stephentgo : “Steampowered flying machines of yesteryear.” Composite made from reduced graphene oxide and magnetite could effectively remove arsenic from drinking water. Is there no end to the amazing properties of […]

…where science, futurism, and anything else Stephen finds interesting are thrown together in an informational stew for your consumption. Enjoy! Follow Stephen on Twitter: @stephentgo Will “Inception” be Christopher Nolan’s first big flop? Some critics are stating that this film is great, but that its too brainy for a summertime movie crowd to appreciate. They’re […]

…where science, futurism, and anything else Stephen finds interesting are thrown together in an informational stew for your consumption. Enjoy! Follow Stephen on Twitter: @stephentgo Quote of the day: “The idea is to die young… as late as possible.” – Ashley Montagu “The Windup Girl” wins the Campbell Award for best 2010 SciFi novel! Synthetic […]

…where science, futurism, and anything else Stephen finds interesting are thrown together in an informational stew for your consumption. Enjoy! Follow Stephen on Twitter: @stephentgo MJSL2050: New US satellite to monitor debris in Earth orbit. “If all goes as planned, the Space-Based Space Surveillance satellite, scheduled for a July 8 launch from Vandenberg Air Force […]

…where science, futurism, and anything else Stephen finds interesting are thrown together in an informational stew for your consumption. Enjoy! Follow Stephen on Twitter: @stephentgo Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit watching comedy retrospectives. “Airplane!” took off 30 years ago. Rumack: You’d better tell the Captain we’ve got to land as soon […]

…where science, futurism, and anything else Stephen finds interesting are thrown together in an informational stew for your consumption. Enjoy! Follow Stephen on Twitter: @stephentgo Flying car, or “roadable aircraft” was designed by a team of MIT trained engineers. Will be on sale 2011. http://j.mp/aZMhe5 With the exception of perhaps jetpacks, nothing says that you’ve […]

…where science, futurism, and anything else Stephen finds interesting are thrown together in an informational stew for your consumption. Enjoy! Follow Stephen on Twitter: @stephentgo New NASA policy calls for research into technologies that could remove space debris, such as laser tractor beams. link The slightest push can move even massive objects in space. So […]

In the latest FFR show, Phil asked what started me on Twitter. The event that got me going was the Humanity Plus Summit. I set up an account, originally, just to follow their feed. But I was also inspired by a fictional technology within Cory Doctorow’s novel, “Makers.” Mild Spoiler Alert “The ride” is an […]

Follow Stephen on Twitter, @stephentgo Rudy Rucker’s award-winning Ware Tetraology now available free: link IEET Chair Nick Bostrom discusses the Great Silence (Fermi paradox) with Robert Lawrence Kuhn link Social cost of disproving Euclidean geometry higher than three 19th cent thinkers willing to pay. Book: 5th Postulate link Scientists have not always lived up to […]