Thor Benson / TruthdigFeb 23, 2015
With the proliferation of technology allowing law enforcement agencies to observe people through walls, we may be entering an era where the word “transparency” takes on a new meaning.With the proliferation of technology allowing police to observe people through walls, we may be entering an era where the word “transparency” takes on a new meaning. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigJan 2, 2015
In response to a vulnerable personal comment on "nerd trauma and male privilege" published by MIT professor Scott Aaronson, New Statesman editor and columnist Laurie Penny wrote a compassionate and highly desirable essay on the experiences of pain, frustration and loneliness common to both nerdy males and females in general. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Chris Hedges / TruthdigJun 16, 2014
Noam Chomsky, for more than five decades, has epitomized what it means to be intellectual. He is brilliant, fiercely independent, ruthlessly honest and fearless in naming the crimes of the power elite and their liberal apologists. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )
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Staff / TruthdigMay 19, 2014
A new push to encrypt email, keeping messages free from government snooping, is gaining momentum. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMar 1, 2014
Three MIT students set out to expose how much crud gets accepted to scientific conferences; Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni was swayed by so-called science to sign an anti-gay bill; meanwhile, Bitcoin may have some value beyond that of an online currency. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 18, 2014
The Kansas House of Representatives passed an anti-gay segregation bill this week; Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders could start a revolution if he ran as a Green Party presidential candidate; meanwhile, a new "Medici" is funding a journalistic endeavor. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigOct 10, 2013
The U.S. Army is calling on the technology industry, government labs and academia to help build an exoskeleton that would give its troops "superhuman strength." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigOct 5, 2013
Scientists at MIT have unveiled cube shaped-robots that can flip, jump and assemble themselves into different shapes, and which they hope will one day be able to "accomplish specific tasks in combat or emergency situations," the BBC reports. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigAug 24, 2013
Robert Morris and Dan McDuff, Ph.D. students at MIT, noticed they were wasting a combined 50 hours per week on Facebook. Their solution to decreasing excessive usage? Pavlov’s Poke. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigJul 26, 2013
Scientists believe they caught a glimpse of the process of false memory creation by manipulating laboratory mice to "remember" an experience that never happened. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigJul 10, 2013
A recently launched online service offers a visual representation of the email metadata scooped up by the NSA and England's intelligence agency GCHQ by organizing your inbox according to the people with whom you correspond. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigMar 29, 2013
A single drug has proven capable of shrinking or curing human breast, ovarian, colon, bladder, brain, liver and prostate tumors that were transplanted into mice by overriding a chemical that normally blocks the immune system from destroying cancer cells. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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