The Lumpen Proletarian

Who Owns Your Great Idea? - NYTimes.com
That depends. Where did you have it and whom did you brainstorm with?

Convert your Honda Accord to run on trash

We may not yet have a flux capacitor for time travel, but we do already have the equivalent of "Mr. Fusion", w...

HOMEMADE PLASMA CUTTER

I Have built a homemade plasma cutter for my shop and now you can.
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The Food Dance Gets New Life When Bees Get Cocaine in an Addiction Study - NYTimes.com

To learn more about the biochemistry of addiction, scientists are giving bees cocaine and have found the insects react much like humans do.

Researchers Create an Epic Genetic Atlas of Rice

(PhysOrg.com) -- Yale researchers have published a cellular atlas of genetic activity in rice, documenting with unprecedented detail how and when genes are turned off and on within cells of a living organism.

What's Inside Raid? Watch Out, Kitty!

Get the latest in science news, including space, physics, planet earth, discoveries, NASA, satellites, and space travel from Wired.com

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Getting into space by broomstick
The proposed space elevator project could be powered by a simple new approach, demonstrated using a broomstick.

The Year 2038 Problem

Volcanoes cool the tropics, say researchers

Climate researchers have shown that big volcanic eruptions over the past 450 years have temporarily cooled weather in the tropics—but suggest that such effects may have been masked in the 20th century by rising global temperatures. Their paper, which shows that higher latitudes can be even more sensitive ...

American Civil Liberties Union : Surveillance Society Clock

Using data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, the ACLU has determined that nearly 2/3 of the entire US population (197.4 million people) live within 100 miles of the US land and coastal borders.

Paul Harris: Frugality is cool in the cash-strapped US | Business | The Observer

Paul Harris analyses the tests facing the new president of a shattered nation where greed is no longer good