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FDA claims your stem cells are drugs and they can regulate them.

3 February, 2012 (08:50) | 2012 Elections, Medicine, Science, Technology | By: ricjames

The Centeno-Schultz Clinic in Colorado (www.centenoschultz.com) has come up with a procedure wherein they treat patients’ severe joint pain with a non-surgical injection of the patients’ own stem cells into the affected area. The process, simply put, involves drawing the patient’s own blood, centrifuging it and extracting the stem cells that we all produce, and [...]

Time for copyright laws to be revised, clarified?

22 January, 2012 (14:09) | Economy, Entertainment, Human Interest, Law, Medicine, Politics, Science, Technology | By: ricjames

Picture yourself as an author, producing an article for a magazine or even a book for publication. In order to make your point or get the particulars of a scene across, you make use of prose from a literary work literally decades old, a work that’s firmly in the public domain. You send the article [...]

What construction looks like when you mean it.

8 January, 2012 (08:35) | 2012 Elections, Economy, Human Interest, Politics, Technology, Transportation | By: ricjames

The 9/11 attacks happened just over a decade ago. While no one was proposing building towers again before the dust settled, there was absolutely no argument that the building should be done. After making sure to recover the fallen and clearing the site to prepare it for building, the building should commence. Ten years later, [...]

Standing behind your product when the bullets are flying!

2 September, 2011 (16:50) | 2nd Amendment, Human Interest, Technology | By: ricjames

And no, that’s not a euphemism.

Aptera manufacturer returning all deposits paid, pushes production out into the unforseeable future

15 August, 2011 (17:05) | Energy, Environment, Technology, Transportation | By: ricjames

Well, that don’t sound good: Would-be California automaker Aptera has announced that it is returning all of the deposits it currently holds for its two-seat, three-wheel electric car. According to GreenCarReports.com, the company sent out a note on August 12th to the people who had placed reservations for the Aptera 2e that reads “…as you [...]

Science that ain’t-so-fiction anymore.

14 August, 2011 (22:03) | History, Human Interest, Science, Technology | By: ricjames

“If Man were meant to fly, he’d have wings!” That commonly-known ridicule of people like the Wright brothers who were told repeatedly that heaver-than-air flight was just so much science fiction is held up as an example of how you should never say never where science and technological advance is concerned. Thanks to MikeM over [...]

SETI’s Allen Array coming back on the air

14 August, 2011 (21:54) | Human Interest, Science, Technology | By: ricjames

After being shut down for a while with funding trouble, the Allen Telescope array near Mount Shasta is coming back on-line for SETI: Back in April we told you about the shuttering of the Allen Array and the difficulties that E.T. would have phoning home. Well, if you happen to be in touch with the [...]

It ain’t Mr. Fusion, but a nuke-powered car might just be on the horizon

13 August, 2011 (09:12) | Energy, Science, Technology, Transportation | By: ricjames

One of the items of technology that’s been keeping my attention is the concept using thorium for a nuclear energy source. Click that link and take a look at my previous articles on the matter; it’s exciting stuff. Well, now comes this news, courtesy of Anthony Watts of WattsUpWithThat? Much like “flying cars”, atomic powered [...]

Chinese bullet train manufacturer issues recall, puts expansion of high-speed rail on hold.

12 August, 2011 (12:53) | Technology, Transportation | By: ricjames

As a proponent of improved and increased rail service in this country, I’m a little disappointed to hear that the large manufacturer of these trains in China is having such quality troubles that they’re issuing a recall: A Chinese bullet train manufacturer announced a recall Friday of 54 trains in the latest embarrassment for a [...]

Are iris scanners the answer to security? And would we permit them?

29 May, 2011 (12:08) | GWOT, Immigration, Politics, Science, Technology, Transportation | By: ricjames

How far would you go to capture a known terrorist? To apprehend an escaped killer? To detain a man who raped a child? To catch a woman who, through fraudulent business practice wrecked a major financial institution, causing millions to become near destitute over night? If someone asked you to strap on a firearm and [...]