$30,000 Electric Car By 2009

News today from CNN Money of an electric car that goes 80mph, travels 120 miles at 60mph, and costs $30,000. It’s called the XS 500 from Miles Automotive.

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Indians predated Newton ‘discovery’ by 250 years

A little known school of scholars in southwest India discovered one of the founding principles of modern mathematics hundreds of years before Newton according to new research.

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Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy’s Couch

If you accept one pretty reasonable assumption, it is almost a mathematical certainty that we are living in someone else’s computer simulation.

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In China, a High-Tech Plan to Track People

Security experts describe China’s plans as the world’s largest effort to meld the latest computer technology with police work.

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World’s oldest person dies at 114

The world’s oldest person, a Japanese woman who counted eating well and getting rest as her hobbies, has died aged 114. Yone Minagawa, a widow who lived in a nursing home but was still sprightly late in life, died “of old age” yesterday.

Wow! 114 yrs old looks like the Japanese are getting something right. Sushi anyone?

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Iraq contractors out of control, firing at U.S. troops and Iraqi citizens

They operate with little or no supervision, accountable only to the firms employing them. And as the country has plummeted toward anarchy and civil war, this private army has been accused of indiscriminately firing at American and Iraqi troops, and of shooting to death an unknown number of Iraqi citizens. Not one has faced charges or prosecution.

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Media Gushes Over Rove: ‘Superstar,’ ‘Boy Genius,’ ‘The Mastermind Behind E

As soon as Karl Rove’s departure from the White House was announced this morning, there was no shortage of talking heads to appear on TV to lavish praise on him.

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New study: It doesn’t Pay to be Smart

If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Brains may be more hindrance than help when it comes to getting rich.

USA Today tells us that it does pay to be smart, due to a study that has just been done. I for one I m tempted to agree with them because if you are smart you realize this system of consumption and wastage is seriously flawed and are far less likely to purse the path of blind acquistion of money and of stuff you don’t need.

You are far more likely to try and use your intelligence to devise ways of reducing the strain on your planet. Nikola Tesla the man behind electricity, proposed free power generated from the sun. His ideas were stolen by his peers who profited from them and he died penniless at the age of 86. Funnily enough after his death his documents were taken by the FBI. So if it doesn’t pay to be smart, then it pays to be stupid and I ‘d rather be smart. One.

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