A Spaniard and a South Korean are vying to become the first woman to conquer the world’s 14 highest mountains. In 1986, Italy’s Reinhold Messner became the first person to climb the world’s 14 highest mountain peaks. Now, two women in Europe are battling it out to become the first woman ever to achieve the…
Sanction is a self-defeating policy By Nabi Sonboli In these days we hear a lot about new round of sanctions against Iran. Human experience has manifested that “wrong way dose not lead to right target”, however, it seems that some do not want to learn from the past. Sanction is a false idea, inefficient tool…
British scientist Stephen Hawking has warned mankind against making alien contact, saying “If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.” He also imagined that “Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they…
Hue and cry about the Library of Congress acquiring the Twitter archive, dating back to its origins in 2006, has shown that we continue to stubbornly believe two myths about social networking. First, that it is private. Second, that it is trivial. Social-networking sites seem to have a curiously alcoholic effect on users. We approach…
But, if we don’t all have helicopter packs, how will we fight the barbarians at the gate Earlier this month, Kevin Zero, of Grinding fame, wrote Your Jetpack (Cannibal Futures), an excellent rant on the old “Where’s my fucking jetpack?” trope that called on people to stop sitting around and actually build their own future….
FACEBOOK FACTS More than 400 million active users Average user has 130 friends 70% of users outside the US Facebook set out its stall to unseat Google and be at the heart of the web experience as it becomes more social. The world’s largest social network unveiled a series of products at its developer conference…
Bradford’s Madni mosque, in northern England, has beaten 50 others to win the title of “Europe’s most beautiful minaret,” the European parliament was told Tuesday. The mosque in Bradford, which has a large Muslim population, was only inaugurated in 2008. Its four minarets won the prize from a shortlist including mosques in Stockholm, Rome. Oslo…
Richard Clarke served as a counterterrorism adviser to Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. He spent much of 2001 warning members of the Bush administration about the possibility of an impending al-Qaida attack. Clarke has now turned his attention to another potential security catastrophe: computer-based terrorism attacks. In his new book, Cyberwar: The Next…