Getting out the vote - _way out_ there - the president courted the very specific nerd punk demographic when he called out the ""Mohawk Guy"":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/8/10/ones-and-zeros-nasa-wins-the-internet-reverse-beer-goggles-and-not-havi…
With the budget fight proving to be one of the most bitter, hyperbolic, government-stopping battles in recent history, the outlook for science funding has never looked worse. The shuttle program and Fermilab are now dead, and Mars plans have been she…
"The Energy Fixers," a documentary on two pathbreaking projects kickstarted by ARPA-e, the Dept. of Energy's advanced projects funder: a biofuel derived from seaweed and a wind power system that's dramatically more efficient than conventional turbine…
When the US Department of Defense created the infant network in the late 1950's that that would later become the mega web of cyberspace that we inhabit today, they envisioned it as a useful tool for the government to share information across small po…
