Dubai Will Issue First Ever State Cryptocurrency | Jon Buck

cointelegraph.com/news/dubai-will-issue-first-ever-state-cryptocurrency Oct. 1, 2017 (CoinTelegraph) -- Dubai has officially launched its own cryptocurrency called emCash, local news media report. Th ...

The Terror of Deep Time | John Michael Greer

Image: Future World Music - New Beginnings. YouTube. youtu.be/2k61ORGZ8h8 Sept. 209, 2017 (EcoSophia.net) -- Back in the 1950s, sociologist C. Wright Mills wrote cogently about what he called “crackp ...

The Perversity of the Equifax Data Breach and What We Must Do | Stephen Farrington, MS, PE

Photo: Courtesy my.opera.com. Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)Stephen Farrington, MS, PE -- Founder/Chief Technologist, Transcend Engineering and Technology, LLC Sept. 13, 2017 The credit reporting industry sta ...

Nuclear Calendar -- Sept. 11, 2017 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- September 11, 2017 Friends Committee on National Legislation Sept. 12 10:00 a.m. House Foreign Affairs Committee, "Hearing: Sanctions, Diplomacy, and Information: Pressuring North ...

From the hearts and minds of men: Depleted Uranium Weapons | Mickey Z.

From: undergrowth.org/depleted_uranium_quote Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Sept. 10, 2017 On Planet Patriarchy, males dominate. Thus, our decisions and inventions impact all forms of life 24/7. This ...

Flip-flop qubits: Radical new quantum computing design invented | Andrea Morello

Artist's impression of the 'flip-flop' qubits exhibiting quantum entanglement. Credit: Tony Melov/UNSW Sept. 6, 2017 (Phys.org) -- Engineers at Australia's University of New South Wales have invented ...

Sticks, Stones, and Nukes redux again… | Emanuele Corso

Atomic bomb mushroom clouds over Hiroshima (left) and Nagasaki (right). Source: Wikipedia Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust July 26, 2017 I published the essay, “Sticks, Stones, and Nukes,” several ...

The Worlds That Never Were | John Michael Greer

Aug. 16, 2017 (Ecosophia.net) -- In order to finish sorting out the foundations for the project this blog will pursue, I want to talk a little more about science fiction. That’s not the digression th ...

On the 40th anniversary of the 1977 blackout | Mickey Z.

Photo by Bolivar Arellano Mickey Z. -- World News Trust July 9, 2017 I was working a summer job at Gimbel’s during the July 13, 1977 blackout. Coincidentally, it occurred on inventory night, the one ...

State election officials worry about 2018 election security | Brian Slodysko

State election officials from across the United States gathered this weekend in Indianapolis amid an uproar over a White House commission investigating allegations of voter fraud and heightened conce ...

Your brain on mesh: Injectable flexible probe melds with neurons, causes little or no chronic immune response | Stuart Mason Dambrot

Fig. 1. Schematics of mesh electronics. (A) Schematics of the mesh electronics structure in 2D. (I) Overall design of mesh electronics structure, where the blue lines highlight the overall mesh struc ...