Raised in Vancouver and Toronto, Severn Cullis-Suzuki has been camping and hiking all her life. When she was 9 she started the Environmental Children’s Organization (ECO), a small group of children committed to learning and teaching other kids about environmental issues. They were successful in many projects before 1992, when they raised enough money to […]
By JR Raphael Contributing Writer, [GAS] You may have been part of a scientific study and not even known it. New word is out this week that researchers used cell phone towers and call records to secretly track every step made by 100,000 people — without ever getting their permission. The study, conducted by Boston’s […]
Located somewhere in Germany, this fun-looking water slide will fling you through a full loop before bringing you crashing down in its pool at the bottom, effectively atomic-wedgying you in the process. Enjoy!
By JR Raphael Contributing Writer, [GAS] Ah, the mystery of the lie detector. Can it really be beaten? George Constanza said trying to learn would be like asking Pavarotti to teach you his tricks. Well, grab your microphone and get ready. It’s time for you to hit the stage. The basics To beat a polygraph, […]
It seems that all domains aren’t created equal. According to a new study by McAfee, sites with names ending by “.hk,” “.cn,” and “.info” are among the most dangerous ones an Internet user can visit. The second annual McAfee “Mapping the Mal Web” report into the riskiest and safest places on the Web reveals that […]
Warning: the following footage contains scenes of extreme violence and has apparently happened just a few days ago in one of Moscow’s official newspaper offices. Edit: We just got our hands on additional footage of the scene. If anyone speaks russian here, a translation would be appreciated.
By Mark O’Neill It’s the hotly anticipated new TV series of 2008. It’s written and created by JJ Abrams (creator and writer of “Lost” and “Alias”) so the hype is big. Also like “Lost”, it starts on a plane. “Fringe”, which starts on August 26th on Fox, is all about Flight 627 which lands at […]
By JR Raphael Contributing Writer, [GAS] A couple of Polish scientists have come up with a way to encode secret messages within the data of internet-based VoIP calls. The men, from the Institute of Telecommunications in Warsaw, designed a steganographic system — a special kind of code that allows content to be encrypted inside of […]