Useless inventions - part 2

You have been given a particularly pointless Christmas present? Here's a way of making sense of it. You can enter it for a prize. The Times writer John Naish set up the Landfill Prize awarded to the most useless objects. What's the most useless, pointless, resource-wasting consumer gadget that

Invisible cloak a reality?

It won't help you sneak around Hogwarts without being seen or let you stalk the USS Enterprise just yet, but scientists have unveiled the world's first cloaking device, using technology designed to make solid objects vanish from sight, writes Ian Sample in the Guardian. Cloaking devices are

Useless inventions - part 1

Today's consumer society has become astonishingly adept at inventing pointless, hopeless, resource-sucking gizmos, but let's not pretend we have a monopoly on this. Since the Victorian era, some of humankind's most creative brains have kept themselves busy creating answers for needs that didn't exis

Kosmos pomaga w... szyfrowaniu danych

Kwazary to bardzo dziwne źródła promieniowania elektromagnetycznego znajdowane na niebie od stu kilkudziesięciu lat. Nie wiadomo na razie do końca, w jaki sposób działają, jednak już udało się je zaprząc do szyfrowania danych! Na zdjęciach kwazary (ang. quasi-stellar objects, QSO, czyli "

Why men and women argue differently

remember that our partner objects not to what we are saying but how we are saying it.Women get very frustrated, hysterical, when trying to get their point across because it seems that it just falls on the dead ground all the time. What they are saying is not being picked up and acknowledged and dealt with