Science & Technology

At the behest of “fathers’ rights advocates,” New Jersey Assemblyman Gilbert Wilson (D) has “proposed a measure . . . that would require all newborns—and their parents—to undergo genetic testing to create a record should questions arise about whom the father or mother is.” A justifiably angry NJ Star-Ledger columnist,…

[caption id="attachment_3328" align="alignright" width="199"] Image: SpaceX[/caption] A question has been bothering me since a Colorado high school student asked me last year: Why don’t the news media report more good news? Part of the answer lies in the nature of the business: “If it bleeds, it leads,” goes the rationale.…

Two years ago today, President Obama signed into law the rights-violating “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” also known as ObamaCare. This is a good time to visit and share the various articles from the The Objective Standard’s Health Care page, where you’ll find vital essays such as Moral Health…

The Supreme Court helped protect property rights yesterday by deciding unanimously that Mike and Chantell Sackett can legally challenge the EPA’s demand that they cease work on building their new home. The Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF), which represented the Sacketts, announced the victory. A Reason TV video summarizes the case.…

Here’s the problem: Sending people through warehouses to retrieve goods consumes a lot of time and resources. Here’s the solution: Build robots that bring the shelves to the people. That’s what Kiva Systems did. As one of the company’s videos explains, its “robots deliver shelves of inventory to ‘pick’ stations,”…

Surprise, surprise: “A new study has failed to find evidence that psychic ability is real,” reports Live Science. But we didn’t need a “new study” to figure that out. The background is that, last year, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology published Daryl Bem’s article purporting to show “retroactive…

The Encyclopaedia Britannica is dead. Long live the Encyclopaedia Britannica! The encyclopedia’s publisher has announced that, in response to the ongoing digital revolution, it will discontinue its printed version and provide exclusively digital content. The publisher’s decision marks a new era for the encyclopedia, and more broadly it marks a…

After two weekends in theaters, the film Lorax earned more than $120 million, reports Bloomberg Businessweek. That’s an impressive haul for a film condemning capitalism. But the irony is apparently lost on the filmmakers. In the original Dr. Seuss story on which the film is based, a manufacturer chops down…

The Obama administration finally found a program it is willing to cut, albeit a tiny one. However, the administration is facing opposition to this reduction by. . . conservatives. As the Washington Times reports, the U.S. government has spent around $2 million per year to facilitate the “adoption” of so-called…

“Animal scientist and advocate for people with autism Temple Grandin [was] inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame,” the AP reports. Grandin, a professor of animal science at Colorado State University, earned fame when Claire Danes portrayed her in the 2010 HBO film Temple Grandin (the DVD of which…