Controlled coupling of light and matter | Heiko Groß et al

Artistic representation of a plasmonic nano-resonator realized by a narrow slit in a gold layer. Upon approaching the quantum dot (red) to the slit opening the coupling strength increases. Credit: He ...

What’s worse than fake news? The distortion of reality itself. | Aviv Ovadya

Aviv Ovadya -- The World Post Feb. 22, 2018 (Johan Viirok/Creative Commons) Aviv Ovadya is chief technologist at the Center for Social Media Responsibility at the University of Michigan and a Knight ...

Science as a Candle in the Dark | Stephen Farrington, MS, PE

Candle, by The Bees, Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)Stephen Farrington, MS, PE -- World News Trust Feb. 13, 2018 Dear readers, I want to talk with you today about something Carl Sagan wrote in his book, The De ...

Three Different Definitions of Blockchain | Stephen Farrington, MS, PE

Illustration by Stephen Farrington Stephen Farrington, MS, PE -- World News Trust Jan. 26, 2018 When I began my personal deep dive into the world of distributed ledger technology, blockchain and cryp ...

United We Stand, Divided We... | Emanuele Corso

Franklin D. RooseveltEmanuele Corso -- World News Trust Feb. 5, 2018 When I was six years old I was taken by my mother to the Springfield, Massachusetts railway station. The station had a high overpa ...

MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime: Automatically-Synthesized Attacks Exploiting Invalidation-Based Coherence Protocols | Caroline Trippel, Daniel Lustig, Margaret Martonosi

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Feb. 11, 2018 (arXrv.org) -- The recent Meltdown and Spectre attacks highlight the importance of automated verification techniques for identifying hardware security vulnerab ...

That time I gave a lecture at MIT…and why it didn’t matter | Mickey Z.

Bill Murray is camp counselor Tripper Harrison in the 1979 movie Meatballs Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Feb. 8, 2018 On March 10, 2003, I gave a very well-attended lecture at the Massachusetts Insti ...

Zeno’s Laughter | John Michael Greer

Zeno of EleaFeb. 7, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- We really are going to have to start a conversation about ethics, aren’t we? Last week’s post on the fallacy of claiming that there’s one and only one prop ...

Student Debt Slavery II: Time to Level the Playing Field | Ellen Brown

Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt Blog Jan. 5, 2018 This is the second in a two-part article on the debt burden America’s students face. Read Part 1 here. The lending business is heavily stacked against stu ...

Student Debt Slavery: Bankrolling Financiers on the Backs of the Young | Ellen Brown

Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt Blog Dec. 26, 2018 Higher education has been financialized, transformed from a public service into a lucrative cash cow for private investors. The advantages of slavery by ...

Moral Obligation | Emanuele Corso

Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust Jan. 11, 2018 What is all the current public angst about? The screaming, the waving of “MAGA” signs, the eruption of open racism and xenophobia? It seems as though, ...