A map of logical fallicies

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Corporate control - how sad

Popular TV show Mythbusters had planned on doing a show dedicated to RFID.  In fact, at some point, Kari Byron had an RFID capsule implanted in her arm to test how it would act during an MRI scan.
The team had planned on doing additional work on RFIDs to test the reliability, trackability, and hackability.  Unfortunately, major credit card companies decided it was best to suppress such investigation.

Stirling Engine to the rescue

Because NASA is running out of Plutonium-238, a new method of power generation must be found.  Enter a 200-year old design: the Stirling Engine.  With this design, engineers are about to increase efficiency of this dwindling fuel.  Granted it isn't exactly like the one pictured below, it's still cool to see this type of design being used

Performance Curve Database

Need data showing how the performance of something has changed over time?  Head over to the the Santa Fe Institute's Perforance Curve Database site that has graphs and data describing such things as the historical performance of photovoltaic cells (think efficiency,  cost per watt, etc).
Below is the graph of Hard Drive storage over time

Mushrooms for landfills

Gizmodo has an interesting article about a mushroom that can exist soley on polyurethane, and live without oxygen (it's anaerobic). Might we finally be able to digest the indestructible plastic we've made?

Northern Lights in Finland

Glass igloos in Finland to watch the northern lights

More Common Sense

Thomas Paine has so many great quotes