Science

Jan 11

By Keith Kleiner

David Gelles from The Futurist has written a very detailed piece that describes Silicon Valley as the epicenter of a worldwide transhumanist movement. Gelles’ article is neither pro nor anti transhumanist, but instead is focused on telling us about the history and the players that have shaped this movement from past to present. The article is a crash course for anyone interested in learning what the transhumanist movement is and who is involved.

At a whopping 20 pages, you really have to be interested in transhumanism to sludge through this article. For those who don’t want to read the whole thing, here is my take on a short summary: read on

Jan 09

The news is sounding more and more like a science fiction novel or movie title.

The South Korean Ministry of Justice announced that they would be adding three new security guards to a prison in Pohang. Normally that wouldn’t be news worthy, but these three particular guards happen to be robots. Developed by ETRI and Kyonggi University, the five-foot tall, four-wheeled guards will patrol at night looking for suspicious activity in cells, and monitor prisoner health. Any situation that develops will be relayed to human guards rather than dealt with by the robots directly. The project cost 1 billion won (~$886,000 USD) and will begin with a month long trial in March of next year. If successful it will continue on at Ponhang and possibly the rest of the country. The inclusion of prison patrolling robots is just the latest example of how South Korea is looking to increase the reputation and range of its robotics industry, with new machines appearing everywhere from classrooms to battlefields. read on

Oct 03

By Alan Caruba

The notion that the Environmental Protection Agency uses “science” to justify their regulations is false, just like most of the claims they issue on various aspects of the nation’s environment. Their favorite scam is to estimate the number of deaths they will prevent with some new draconian regulation.

The EPA is the American equivalent of the Gestapo, a ruthless enforcement agency with a very Green agenda that is opposed to the use of many beneficial chemicals, every form of energy, and the right of people to be left alone.

At the top of its list of priorities is the destruction of the nation’s economy with special attention to all forms of energy production. Manufacturing anything comes next, followed by afflicting the nation’s vast agricultural sector. The EPA insists that dust is a pollutant. You can’t farm without generating DUST. read on

Mar 09

By Boogai Staff

Boogai.net salutes IREA on its mandate to continue providing a steady power source to its customers, providing Legislative Alerts and being proactive in keeping its members informed.

Monthly newsletters similar to the one in the attached link serve to keep its customers informed and not give into the Global Warming purveyors of doom who have financial and political agendas.

Feb 13

By Alan Caruba:

Abraham Lincoln was born on the same day, February 12, as Charles Darwin in 1809. The place was Shrewsbury, England and he was the fifth child and second son of Robert Waring Darwin and Susanna Wedgwood. He would bequeath the family name to science as Darwinism or Darwinian.

He wrote “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (1859), generally referred to as “The Origin of Species” for short. From Darwin we have the common phrase “the survival of the fittest” and, of course, “the theory of evolution.” read on

Sep 23

By Alan Caruba

In the Greek myth about Cassandra, she could foresee the future, but no one believed her warnings. Her name is believed to be derived from the words for beauty and the sun.

Any number of solar scientists and others are warning that the Earth is on the brink of a new Ice Age at worst, a mini ice age at best. Dr. Achim Brauer of the German Research Center for Geosciences in Potsdam has concluded that the next Ice Age will come on so swiftly that in barely a year much of the northern hemisphere will be incased in ice and snow. read on

Sep 21

http://www.discoveryinstitutepress.com/signature-of-controversy/download.php

Stephen Meyer, author of “Signature in the Cell” a science based argument on intelligent design is giving away a book titled “Signature of Controversy” for signing up to a weekly email.

Boogai.net

Sep 07

Google is collecting more information about your internet habits than most American’s could ever dream. In fact, I’m certain that if most American’s knew how they were being tracked on the internet they would demand immediate action from congress to stop this “corporate” invasion of privacy. read on

Aug 23

By Intermountain Rural Electric Association
www.intermountain-rea.com

1. While temperatures rose in the 20th century, why did most of the warming occur in the first half of the century and earlier, when fewer fossil fuels were burned? North America warmed substantially between 1850 and 1930. But in 1971 a spokesman for the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, while noting that global temperatures had fallen during the previous 20-30 years, claimed that industrial pollution would soon reduce the global temperature by 3.5°C. read on

Jul 26

By Andrew Langer
President, Institute for Liberty

Obama’s Oil Spill Commission lacks expertise to provide America answers: Another example of public policy’s “War on Experts” read on