Interesting reading…

Not your teen’s model rocket - “The Desert Hawk is 10 feet tall and weighs 126 pounds. Launching it required high-altitude clearance from the Federal Aviation Administration. It’s fueled by a mixture of ammonium perchlorate and synthetic rubber - known as APCP, it’s essentially what powers the space shuttle…”

Hyperfast Star Proven To Be Alien - “A young star is speeding away from the Milky Way so fast that astronomers have been puzzled by where it came from; based on its young age it has traveled too far to have come from our galaxy…”

What Our Top Spy Doesn’t Get: Security and Privacy Aren’t Opposites - “If there’s a debate that sums up post-9/11 politics, it’s security versus privacy. Which is more important? How much privacy are you willing to give up for security? Can we even afford privacy in this age of insecurity? Security versus privacy: It’s the battle of the century, or at least its first decade…”

Fact-Checking the State of the Union Speech - “Here, NPR reporters analyze key aspects of the president’s address, summarizing his proposals and their prospects…”

Internet 1996 - “In 1996, the Internet Archive began archiving the web for a service called the Wayback Machine. I decided to peruse the Wayback Machine’s earliest archives to see what the internet looked like in 1996…”

How Teenage Rebellion Has Become a Mental Illness - “For a generation now, disruptive young Americans who rebel against authority figures have been increasingly diagnosed with mental illnesses and medicated with psychiatric (psychotropic) drugs…”

The Autumn of the Multitaskers - “Neuroscience is confirming what we all suspect: Multitasking is dumbing us down and driving us crazy. One man’s odyssey through the nightmare of infinite connectivity…”

The great fiscal stimulus package … of 1929 - “Lately, whenever the market has a bad day, the reflex among financial-news editors is to compare our current situation with 1987 and wonder if a “Black Monday”-style crash is on the horizon…”

Camera In A Pill Offers Cheaper, Easier Window On Your Insides - “What if swallowing a pill with a camera could detect the earliest signs of cancer? The tiny camera is designed to take high-quality, color pictures in confined spaces. Such a device could find warning signs of esophageal cancer, the fastest growing cancer in the United States…”

Don’t treat the old and unhealthy, say doctors - “Ninety-four per cent said that an alcoholic who refused to stop drinking should not be allowed a liver transplant…”

16 year-old builds electric pickup truck - “We all know the major manufacturers are saying it can’t be done, so I guess it’s up to the youth! Andrew Angelloti, an Ecomodder forum member, converted his very own 1988 Mazda pickup to run on electricity last year, using $6,000 he had saved up from his part time job as a life guard…”

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