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New Internationalist Special on Depleted Uranium

New Internationalist Special on Depleted Uranium

The New Internationalist Published a special issue on Depleted Uranium last year. Here is the link: http://www.newint.org/issues/2007/11/01/ November 2007 Issue No. 406 Toxic souvenirs Will the whole truth about depleted uranium ammunition ever come out? It depends on who’s looking, discovers Din...

FRINGE SCIENCE: Artificial Life’s dazzling chimera.

FRINGE SCIENCE: Artificial Life’s dazzling chimera.

IN the mid-1980s Ridley Scott painted a haunting picture of artificial life – androids, patented snakes, and DIY replicants. Blade Runner is one of the seminal science fiction movies of all time and yet we as a species are only beginning to get to grips with the dilemma’s involved, since artifici...

NET 2.0: Post-Scarcity Economics and the problem with Google

NET 2.0: Post-Scarcity Economics and the problem with Google

THE Information Age was founded upon what one might call a fundamental error – the exchange of terms in an economic model that would lead us to a post-scarcity economy in which the traditional laws of economics no longer applied. It is the kind of error that a postal clerk might conjour up, and y...

Westinghouse implicated in bid to takeover Media

Westinghouse implicated in bid to takeover Media

WESTINGHOUSE, the nuclear bomb manufacturer was implicated in a bid to takeover the media in 1995, this according to the Campaign for Nuclear Responsibility and Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR). One of the tenders for SA's latest atomic energy programe is none other than Westinghouse, a...