The vast ocean of electronic information out there on the net, according to them, represents a historic triumph of web users over the institutions that have kept them at bay.
via guardian.co.uk
Sunday, 28 February 2010
When the net's wisdom of crowds turns into an online lynch mob | Technology | The Observer
Friday, 26 February 2010
Snake Oil? The scientific evidence for health supplements
Snake Oil? The scientific evidence for health supplements
Another beautiful rendering of data by McCandless
Monday, 22 February 2010
Waiter, There's Pseudo-Science in My Soup
Campbell's chooses "neuromarketing" over consumer feedback in rebranding its iconic soup cans.
via fastcompany.com
I have an aerosol spray in my desk drawer which I use whenever I hear the buzzing of marketing quackflies.
Monday, 8 February 2010
Science Fiction or Reality: When do the Machines Take Over?
Maybe the technological advances we’re seeing now will lead to great things, maybe they’ll lead to our eventual enslavement, there is no clear way to tell. Science fiction will continue to present new ideas and theories on the future, and we’ll eat them up like Frosted Flakes on a Saturday morning.
via wired.com
Any good reading list for trends watchers must include a fair smattering of sci-fi. It's from this pool of imaginative talent that we can see some of tomorrow's innovations. It's fascinating to see some of the more longer-term, far-out scenarios and imagined inventions, work their way out of speculative science into the real world.
Thursday, 4 February 2010
Wednesday, 3 February 2010
Hark! What witchcraft is this?
How on earth did these clever people manage to extract all those calories out of water and make sure it still tasted like water? Amazing science - that's how!
What a load of bollocks
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Inuit
I'm overawed by this wonderful BBC trailer for the Winter Olympics. It even makes the nippers sit up whenever it airs.
Snake oil salesman gets what he deserves
via scepticsbook.com
Good to see one of these evil peddlars getting his due. Clip from US Dragons Den
Monday, 1 February 2010
Drum bum
This looks like one of those little projects where the participants got a little too carried away and forgot why they were filming it in the first place. There isn't a Coco de Mer product in sight and, if you didn't know the brand is supposed to be a more upmarket Ann Summers, you might go away thinking this is a promo for some dodgy ethnic act in a Soho nightclub.
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