Yearly Archives: 2013

Religion, Technology and Science in the 21st Century – Part 1: Uncertainty in a Changing World

Back at the beginning of the 21st century, PBS, the U.S. public broadcaster, ran a series called "Can Religion Withstand Technology?" For a large...

Space Update: Mars One Introduces Some of its Candidate Colonists

Mars One is either the craziest project humans have ever undertaken, or pure genius. The plan is to send 4 colonists, 2 men and...

Environment Update: Violence a Consequence of Rapid Climate Change

In this month's issue of the journal Science, two studies appear. The first shows evidence that increased conflict is a consequence of changing climate....

Headlines at 21st Century Tech for August 2, 2013

In the Northern Hemisphere we are into the "Dog Days" of summer, a time when so many are on vacation, and the pace of...

Gizmos & Gadgets: New Flying-Walking Robot Struts Its Stuff

The Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland has developed the DALER, short for Deployable Air Land Exploration...

Agriculture Update: Your Future Hamburger May Soon Be Lab Grown

Is this an agriculture story or a manufacturing story? I'll leave it to you to decide. It involves the production of beef which is...

Gizmos & Gadgets: Helikite Balloon Provides Mobile Emergency Phone Service

The mobile telephone communication has changed the world in the last three decades. It has allowed Developing World countries to establish telecommunications networks at...

Where Politics Trumps Science Oil is Sure to be Involved

On today's front page of The Globe and Mail, Canada's ambassador to the United States in a telephone interview illustrates just how politicized the...

Space Update: India May Soon Join the U.S., China and Russia with Human Missions to Space

India continues to build an independent space launch capability as it strives to join the space elite. Its two main rocket launchers, the PSLV...

Are Governments Thinking of Geoengineering Earth to Adjust to Climate Change?

Doug Saunders in today's Globe and Mail has written "the idea of geoengineering planet-scale projects to reverse climate change...has recently gained a lot more...

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