Science and Technology

The Chinese government, feeling threatened by the flow and exchange of information among its 100 million Internet users, announced yesterday the imposition of new regulations intended to limit access to news and commentary not pre-approved by the government’s Propaganda Department. The new rules will allow only the posting of “healthy …

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (that's of the UK) is offering free access over the weekend.

Even as Hurricane Rita loomed before the Gulf Coast, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin J. Martin told a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation yesterday that the nation’s emergency responders require a mobile, wireless system that enables them to communicate with one another in times …

The BBC show Horizon tackles a ripping good scientific controversy tonight: were the astonishingly small, 18,000 year-old adult human remains found on the isolated Indonesian island of Flores last year a previously unknown species of human, Homo floresiensis, or were they the benighted remains of a modern human with the …

Where are all the female bloggers? Here, in my weekly "top ten" posts.

Most of the music is terrible, which is encouraging.

A hearty congratuations to Shaun Daily upon reaching the first anniversary of his news and commentary webcast show SUBJECT 2 DISCUSSION! Tonight’s anniversary show airs at 6pm PST, 9pm EST LIVE on LVROCKS.COM – guests this week will be Joe Gandelman from The Moderate Voice in the first hour, and …

The Red Carpet beckons and surely you would look better sitting there than the dufuses pictured above. For one week, from noon PST September 19 until noon PST September 26 (yes, that means now), fans can enter a random online drawing to win one of 300 bleacher seats available to …

In the better-late-than-never category, so thunderstruck was I by my experience at the Future of Music Coalition’s ’05 Policy Summit last week in Washington, DC that I am just now getting caught up. In particular I had the great good fortune of moderating the session on “How to Podcast and …

If information is power, is there such a thing as too much power or too much knowledge? I recently wondered that after listening to an NPR program on Google. It contained information that was both fascinating and infuriating. This was the first time – except for during the recent news …