It turns out pot is a stronger economic driver than 90 percent of the industries active in Colorado.

When the SETI community adopted protocols for telling the world that ET exists, people mostly got their news from radio, TV and newspapers. The year was 1989. The internet was a nascent U.S. military-backed project known as ARPANET – the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. Facebook founder…

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Replicating a whole hand to crack open biometrically sealed vaults is the stuff movies are made of. But in September, that break-in tactic became more than make-believe. Researchers at Michigan State University say they’re able to 3D print a full hand, complete with fingerprints on all ten fingers.…

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The Evolution of Battery Technology on June 22, 2016 at 8:47 am Share Share Reddit Email Shares 943 The Battery Series Part 1: The Evolution of Battery Technology The Battery Series is a five-part infographic series that explores what investors need to know about modern battery technology, including…

Sean Gallup/Getty Images The Battery Series is a five-part infographic series that explores what investors need to know about modern battery technology, including raw material supply, demand, and future applications. We've already looked at the evolution of battery technology and how lithium-ion…

For the last decade, Macs have been running a UNIX-ish operating system on x86 processors. They’ve been fantastic developer’s machines, and the MacBook Pro is the de facto standard laptop issued to all developers, all hackathon attendees, and arguably, anyone who does real work with a computer. This…

The Wirecutter , an in-depth comparative review site for various electrical and electronic devices, just published an opinion piece on whether users should be worried about security issues in IoT devices . The summary: avoid devices that don't require passwords (or don't force you to change a…

(Getty Images) Hello, people of Backchannel. Steven at your service. This week had the rare circumstance of two aged-but-still-sprightly competitors unveiling products on successive days. On Wednesday, Microsoft— formerly the heavyweight champion of the personal computer world on the basis of its…

25 Oct 2016 Linking to a provocative piece that “VR Will Break Museums” . The article discusses many issues with museums both large and small. The best museums add context to the objects that they display, putting them into a story that builds knowledge in the museum-goer. But some concepts are…

Fewer polluters were criminally prosecuted based on referrals from the Environmental Protection Agency this year than in any year in the past two decades, including during the George W. Bush administration. Justice Department data collected by Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access…

When the Justice Department announced two months ago that it wanted to end the use of private prisons, Cibola County Correctional Center was exactly the kind of facility that officials desired to shut down. After a history of questionable deaths and substandard medical care, the New Mexico facility…

The two largest teachers unions in Massachusetts asked federal and state law enforcement officials to investigate whether large donations to a charter school ballot measure backed by Republican Gov. Charlie Baker violated anti-corruption rules. The request Thursday from the unions was prompted by an…

Law enforcement officials arrested 141 people in North Dakota after police surrounded protesters, deploying pepper spray and armored vehicles in order to clear hundreds of Native American activists and supporters from land owned by an oil pipeline company. The move marked the beginning of an…

I’ve blogged a lot about digital identities, but failed to cover an in-depth review of the largest identity program in the world: Aadhaar . It’s been very remiss of me, but I’ve been waiting for the right moment and now seems to be that moment. Aadhaar is well known for those in the identity field,…

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AT THE heart of an emerging technology cluster in London’s Shoreditch lies the Stage, a big mixed-use building complex that is being developed by Vanke, a Chinese real-estate company, among a few others. A potential Chinese buyer of one of the flats in its 37-storey residential tower recently had a…

Lou Barrett dresses as a resurrected celtic monk, in keeping with this year's theme Celtic theme, prepares to march in The New York Village Halloween Parade Rebecca McAlpin/Bloomberg News Photographer: Rebecca McAlpin/Bloomberg News Photographer: Rebecca McAlpin/Bloomberg News Forget scary clowns.…

Into the Storm: The True Story of a Harrowing Ocean Rescue

A new image of the Milky Way shows our galaxy bursting with a dazzling array of colors unlike anything we’ve seen before. That’s because our eyes perceive the universe around us by comparing brightness in three primary colors: red, green, and blue. But the Murchison Widefield Array , located in the…

Police arrested 141 people at a protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota today as officers attempted to disperse the crowd, authorities said. Officers also used pepper spray against protesters who police said were throwing things at them and refusing to comply with law…

John Stumpf, former chief executive oof Wells Fargo, sworn in to a House Financial Services Committee hearing last month. Lawmakers pummeled Stumpf and questioned whether he should be sent to jail. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg) Since the 2008 financial crisis, one obscure federal agency has succeeded in…

ASSOCIATED PRESS The recent massacres in Orlando and San Bernardino have sparked a national debate on whether law enforcement should be able to access information on people's smartphones. But there's a quieter cellphone search that's taking place on our borders, and privacy rights activists say it's…

Federal Communication Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler joins hands with Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel ahead of a February 2015 hearing in Washington, D.C. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP "It's the consumers' information. How it is used should be the consumers' choice." So said FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler…

The Principle Navigations , Richard Hakluyt’s great championing of Elizabethan colonial exploration, remains one of the most important collections of English travel writing ever published. As well as the escapades of famed names such as Francis Drake and Walter Raleigh, Nandini Das looks at how the…

Federal officials delivered a landmark ruling in favor of online privacy Thursday, limiting how Internet providers use and sell customer data, while asserting that customers have a right to control their personal information. Under the Federal Communications Commission’s new rules, consumers may…

The U.S. Department of Justice has charged 61 people and entities with conspiracy and fraud over a scam that involved phone calls from people pretending to be from the IRS or other government agencies. The conspiracy defrauded at least 15,000 people of more than $300 million, the U.S. government…

Matthew Abbott for Nature “The funding cycle is brutal.” — Martin Tingley Martin Tingley was coming undone. It was late autumn 2014, just over a year into his assistant-professor job at Pennsylvania State University in State College, and he was on an eight-hour drive home after visiting his wife in…

A poor soul adrift in the void could bring the genesis on a place like Mars NASA One day, it's bound to happen. An astronaut dies in space. Maybe the death occurred en route to Mars. Maybe she was interstellar, on board solo spacecraft. Or maybe the body was thrust out an airlock, a burial at space.…

To sit by our local pool in Bethesda, Maryland, at swimming-lesson time, as I do every Saturday morning, is to marvel at American ambition, positivity and derring-do. Those qualities are apparent in the enthusiasm with which my children are whooped into the water by their relentlessly upbeat…

Abstract Many birds fly non-stop for days or longer, but do they sleep in flight and if so, how? It is commonly assumed that flying birds maintain environmental awareness and aerodynamic control by sleeping with only one eye closed and one cerebral hemisphere at a time. However, sleep has never been…

Because thinking is hard. Buster Benson Sep 1, 2016 http://chainsawsuit.com/comic/2014/09/16/on-research/ 2018 update : Wow, over 1M reads! This article, published in 2016, is going to be expanded and turned into a book about the art of having more productive disagreements (by being mindful of our…

Global wildlife populations have plummeted by 58% between 1970 and 2012, according to the latest Living Planet Report published by conservation group WWF on Wednesday. The report — an analysis of data on more than 14,200 populations across 3,700 species of mammals, fish, amphibians, birds and…

Last summer, Mother Jones reporter Shane Bauer stunned readers with a long dig on what he saw as a private prison guard . For the magazine’s new print issue, he offers something equally haunting: an account of his time joining self-styled militiamen on the US-Mexico border . The armed and organized…

Joe Walsh, who was a United States congressman from 2011 until 2013, declared on Wednesday afternoon that he will take up arms if Donald Trump is not elected to the presidency. On November 8th, I'm voting for Trump. On November 9th, if Trump loses, I'm grabbing my musket. You in? — Joe Walsh…

Even now, the people of Flint, Mich., cannot trust what flows from their taps. More than one year after government officials finally acknowledged that an entire city’s water system was contaminated by lead, many residents still rely on bottled water for drinking, cooking and bathing. Parents still…

Samantha Seda’s client, a 16-year-old foster child from Far Rockaway, New York, had no criminal history when he was arrested in September, accused of having pulled out a gun and fired one shot in the air. Even though he had no priors and no relatives who could post bail, a judge set the amount at…