Malcolm McCulloch
An Oxford electrical engineer has come up with a refrigerator that runs without electricity. Not his own idea. He has based it on a model invented by Albert Einstein in 1930.
 

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It’s a time piece unlike anything you’ve ever seen. And with six patents for bizarreness, the Corpus clock is guaranteed ‘eccentric’. It displays time not with the help of hour and minute hands but through blue LEDs shining through slots in the gold plated, two million dollar wall clock. A Chronophage, or a time-eater in [...]

 
From the “how the hell did we miss this” department comes word that the U.S. military is hard at work creating “thought helmets” for its soldiers. If fully realized, this mind-interfacing piece of gear would allow for what plebeians would call magic, and Arthur C. Clark would call basic telepathy. The “good” news is the [...]

 
Climate has been implicated by a new study as a major driver of wildfires in the last 2,000 years. But human activities, such as land clearance and fire suppression during the industrial era (since 1750) have created large swings in burning, first increasing fires until the late 1800s, and then dramatically reducing burning in the [...]

 
Miners in the southern African kingdom of Lesotho have found one of the world’s largest diamonds, a near-flawless white gem weighing nearly 500 carats, mining group Gem Diamonds said on Sunday.

Persistent pain from repetitive strain injury occurs most frequently among workers who do heavy manual handling tasks.

 
Conspiracy theories, both real or imagined, will soon run rampant
The credit crisis shaking the global economy is forcing a dramatic reconfiguration of Wall Street, where the financial industry in recent years has been driven to take ever-greater risks on increasingly esoteric investments. The fragility of Wall Street’s architecture was exposed this week when two icons [...]