Posts Tagged ‘Wired Magazine’

Hackerville: How a Remote Town in Romania Has Become Cybercrime Central

Hackerville: How a Remote Town in Romania Has Become Cybercrime Central
Three hours outside Bucharest, Romanian National Road 7 begins a gentle ascent into the foothills of the Transylvanian Alps. Meadowlands give way to crumbling houses with chickens in the front yard, laundry flapping on clotheslines. But you know you’ve arrived in the town of Râmnicu Vâlcea when...
February 14th, 2011 | Social Insight | Read More

Inside the Battle to Define Mental Illness

Inside the Battle to Define Mental Illness
Every so often Al Frances says something that seems to surprise even him. Just now, for instance, in the predawn darkness of his comfortable, rambling home in Carmel, California, he has broken off his exercise routine to declare that “there is no definition of a mental disorder. It’s bullshit. I...
January 31st, 2011 | Science of the Mind | Read More

The AI Revolution Is On

The AI Revolution Is On
Diapers.com warehouses are a bit of a jumble. Boxes of pacifiers sit above crates of onesies, which rest next to cartons of baby food. In a seeming abdication of logic, similar items are placed across the room from one another. A person trying to figure out how the products were shelved could well conclude...
January 31st, 2011 | Science & Technology | Read More

Genetically-Engineered Aliens?

Genetically-Engineered Aliens?
Mirror-Image Cells Could Transform Science — or Kill Us All Dmitar Sasselov was at the end of a long day of having his mind blown when the really big idea hit him. Sasselov, an astrophysicist and head of the Origins of Life Initiative at Harvard, was sitting in the front row of a packed lecture...
December 22nd, 2010 | Science & Technology | Read More

Shocking Ideas That Could Change the World

Shocking Ideas That Could Change the World
Warning: The ideas expressed here may be dangerous. For this year’s list, we walked right past the usual suspects and went looking for trouble. We wanted radicals, heretics, agitators—big thinkers with controversial, game-changing propositions. We found a prison reformer who wants to empty jails,...
July 13th, 2010 | Big Ideas | Read More

Geek Power

Geek Power
“It’s funny in a way”, says Bill Gates, relaxing in an armchair in his office. “When I was young, I didn’t know any old people. When we did the microprocessor revolution, there was nobody old, nobody. It’s weird how old this industry has become.” The Microsoft cofounder and I, a couple...
May 1st, 2010 | Science & Technology | Read More

The Great Wall of Facebook

The Great Wall of Facebook
The  Social Network’s Plan to  Dominate the Internet —   and Keep Google Out. Instead of working together to reach the promised land of online brand advertising, Facebook and Google are racing to see who can get there first. By Fred Vogelstein from Wired Magazine Larry Page should have...
November 20th, 2009 | Science & Technology | Read More

Researchers Try to Cure Racism

Researchers Try to Cure Racism
As the first African-American president in United States history takes office, researchers have shown that it may be possible to scientifically reduce racial bias. After being trained to distinguish between similar black male faces, Caucasian test subjects showed greater racial tolerance on a test designed...
October 4th, 2009 | Science & Technology | Read More

THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON GOD

THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON GOD
Michael Persinger has a vision – the Almighty isn’t dead, he’s an energy field. And your mind is an electromagnetic map to your soul. Article is excerpted from Wired Magazine, and authored by Jack Hitt.
August 7th, 2009 | Consciousness | Read More