The Feasibility of Self-Driving Cars
There are more than 5 million automobile accidents every year in the United States, resulting in over 40,000 deaths. Worldwide, there are over 1 million deaths. Because over 90% of accidents are caused by...
The Dark Side of Keeping Clean
We’re committed to using refillable water bottles. We carefully place paper and cardboard into recycling bins. Yet every day, when we routinely wash our faces and brush our teeth, are we mindlessly polluting...
Water Fluoridation
This past March, Mayor David Stahl of East Brunswick, NJ denounced tap water fluoridation as "mass medication of the public." An ethical labyrinth, it infringes on informed consent and individual choice, but...
Changing the Language of Nature
Farren Isaacs’ Recoding of the Genetic Code and the Future of GMOs Yale Professor Farren Isaacs’ big moment on late night TV came on October 24, 2013. After a night out with the lab celebrating their...
How to Prevent Yourself from Getting Hacked 101
In the last 18 months alone, hacks of Premera Blue Cross, Anthem, Sony, Home Depot, JPMorgan, and Ebay have resulted in a total of over 400 million records being stolen. These records ranged from email...
Redshift: The Universe’s Doppler Effect
What is redshift? Everyone is familiar with the sound a passing siren makes: the distant noise, the buildup, the peak in pitch as it passes you, and finally the fading of the siren as the vehicle races into...
Make No Misteak
What's Wrong with American Beef While on a sustainable farming trip at the picturesque Gravity Hills Farm in Titusville, New Jersey, I was intrigued by a local beef farmer's comment about the Mediterranean...
Train of the Future
Imagine you just woke up. You have exactly 35 minutes to get from Los Angeles to the San Francisco Bay Area, a distance of approximately 900 miles. Not possible? Well, Elon Musk has made a career out of making...
The Search Engine Race
A Two Sided Game Plan In 1998, Lawrence “Larry” Page and his colleague at Stanford, Sergey Brin, outlined the then-current status of search engines. Yahoo!, WebCrawler and Search Engine Watch were...