[monochrom] monochrom: pressespiegel 2008

endlich, da ist er, frisch von roland gratzers usb-stick. der monochrom pressespiegel 2008. http://www.monochrom.at/info-monochrom/monochrom--pressemappe_2008.pdf

[monochrom] Love on Twitter

Link (via cycus) -- Posted By johannes to monochrom at 2/19/2009 01:35:00 PM

[monochrom] Blackwater and Friends: No Mercy for Mercenaries

After raking in more than a billion dollars from its contracts in Iraq, Blackwater is finally being forced to leave the country that it has terrorised for so long. But the notorious mercenary firm's departure will likely have more symbolic significance than any real impact on the day-to-day l

[monochrom] Natural antifreeze may keep Mars running with water

There's nothing like a little antifreeze to thaw out a frozen planet. Thanks to chemicals called perchlorates, liquid water may play a bigger role on Mars than expected, which is good news for the search for life.

[monochrom] An Alienation Artist: Kafka and His Critics

The most common complaint among revisionist biographers and doting critics of Franz Kafka is that, in the eighty-odd years since his death, the deification of the writer has reduced his work to the level of the aphorism. If Kafka has not yet found his way onto the walls of every dentist's wai

[monochrom] Jane Austen's Bennet girls go zombie slaying

It is a truth commercially acknowledged that Jane Austen's high-spirited heroines can be recast as Hollywood brats or Bollywood sirens, wittily navigating the eternal perils of class, romance and unworthy men. Few challenges, however, are as unusual as the latest foe facing Elizabeth Bennet

[monochrom] The Long Story Of The Cardboard Box From The Sky / Part 3

It's really a long story. Link -- Posted By johannes to monochrom at 2/18/2009 09:48:00 PM

[monochrom] Roivoire's Scarflettes!

Ooh... beautiful stuff. Check out roivoire's Etsy shop. Link -- Posted By johannes to monochrom at 2/17/2009 09:01:00 PM

[monochrom] 50% of Charges Against Pirate Bay Dropped

There has been high drama on the second day of the Pirate Bay trial. Due to serious shortcomings in the prosecution evidence, around 50% of the charges in the case are going to have to be withdrawn. The defense describes it as a 'sensation', seeing half of the charges being dropped on the sec

[monochrom] Will Technology Make Movie Stars Obsolete?

Nearly an hour of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button only seems like it has Brad Pitt in it. What the audience is really seeing is computer wizardry. So: How long before Hollywood decides that living, breathing movie stars are no longer necessary?

[monochrom] Human Evolution: Last-Minute Changes

Scientific orthodoxy says that human evolution stopped a long time ago. Did it? The debate over the validity of evolutionary theory may be real enough when it comes to religious belief and cultural outlook. But it has nothing to do with science. No evidence seriously contradicts the idea that t

[monochrom] The Best Conservative Movies

Fuck... 'cause some of them I really like. Link -- Posted By johannes to monochrom at 2/17/2009 10:53:00 AM

[monochrom] Cotton candy may help grow human tissue

Cotton candy may have found a new role: helping scientists grow replacement tissues for people. Link -- Posted By johannes to monochrom at 2/16/2009 01:28:00 PM

[monochrom] Hamsters On Treadmills Provide Electricity Through Use Of Nanogenerators

Could hamsters help solve the world's energy crisis? Probably not, but a hamster wearing a power-generating jacket is doing its own small part to provide a new and renewable source of electricity. Link -- Posted By johannes to

[monochrom] Facebook's New TOS: Brrrrr.

Facebook's terms of service (TOS) used to say that when you closed an account on their network, any rights they claimed to the original content you uploaded would expire. Not anymore. Now, anything you upload to Facebook can be used by Facebook in any way they deem fit, forever, no matter wh

[monochrom] "Eskimo" words for Snow

Stuart P. Derby discusses what is probably the most often mentioned factiod in folklore linguistics, the great number of words for "snow" in the "Eskimo language": Does "Eskimo" REALLY have some megaboss number of words for snow? Well that depends on what "megaboss" means, of course. And it also

[monochrom] Iraqi National Museum, Badly Looted After Invasion, To Reopen

The long-awaited reopening marks a milestone in the government's efforts to retrieve and preserve artifacts and archaeological sites from Iraq's history after almost six years of theft, destruction and violence. [...] Officials have since struggled to rebuild the museum's collection, recoupin

[monochrom] Jerry Lewis' Typewriter

Certainly a masterpiece. Link -- Posted By johannes to monochrom at 2/15/2009 01:49:00 PM

[monochrom] Fever Vs. Cancer

Conventional wisdom long held that the human immune system was no match for cancer. Born of native cells, the logic went, cancer fooled the immune system into concluding it was harmless. Thus protected from attack, cancer easily thrived until its host died. A deeper understanding of our bio

[monochrom] Go: Computers conquer the final frontier

Go -- the Asian board game once thought too complex for computers to master -- is finally succumbing to silicon power. Today at AAAS, a computer program bested an American professional. The loser, James Kerwin, played with a sizeable handicap, but computer programs are getting better by the

[monochrom] Hackers and technology in the Amish community

Kevin Kelly writes about the Amish, usually thought to be Luddites, adopt modern technology: Ivan is an Amish alpha-geek. He is always the first to try a new gadget or technique. He gets in his head that the new flowbitzmodulator would be really useful. He comes up with a justification of how i

[monochrom] Ask the GOP oracle

Really. Try. Link (via lx_barth) -- Posted By johannes to monochrom at 2/13/2009 08:51:00 PM

[monochrom] Cold War Unicorn Set

Wow! Link (via bahoolala) -- Posted By johannes to monochrom at 2/13/2009 03:22:00 PM

[monochrom] Purpose, Meaning & Darwinism

Mary Midgley meditates on mind and meaning among the mutations. Link -- Posted By johannes to monochrom at 2/13/2009 11:19:00 AM

[monochrom] Uranium Poisoning Treatment Developed

The use of uranium as a nuclear fuel and in weapons increases the risk that people may come into contact with it, and the storage of radioactive uranium waste poses an additional environmental risk. However, radioactivity is not the only problem related to contact with uranium; the toxicity of

[monochrom] Decoding Sarkozy

Alain Badiou's book on Sarkozy reveals the philosopher's own advocacy of change based in reality, which is beginning to displace the old 'new philosophy' of Bernard-Henri Lévy et al. During the French presidential election campaign of 2007, there was a murmuring of something beyond the Sarko-S

[monochrom] "Advertisement Age" about BB/Cheetos/monochrom

Advertisement Age reports about the BB/Cheetos/monochrom story. Link -- Posted By johannes to monochrom at 2/13/2009 11:06:00 AM

[monochrom] Fwd: [Mitteilungen des eheml. Weltraumsprechers] Knall im All

From: Fuchs Georg To: "j...@monochrom.at" Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:17:07 +0100 Subject: [Mitteilungen des eheml. Weltraumsprechers] Knall im All Thread-Topic: [Mitteilungen des eheml. Weltraumsprechers] Knall im All Thread-Index: AcmM8q1/oxXJuc8ZT5K/pElHQR/aKA== Accept-Language: de-DE, de-AT X-

[monochrom] The Long Story Of The Cardboard Box From The Sky / Part 2

It's really a long story. Link -- Posted By johannes to monochrom at 2/11/2009 08:13:00 PM

[monochrom] Photorealistic paintings of dishes and a dishwasher

Paintings by Roberto Bernardi -- Posted By johl to monochrom at 2/11/2009 05:04:00 PM

[monochrom] Wikipedia, echo chamber of verifiability

From slashdot: "Germany has a new minister of economic affairs. Mr. von und zu Guttenberg is descended from an old and noble lineage, so his official name is very long: Karl Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp Franz Joseph Sylve

[monochrom] Georgi Arbatov discusses Putin's Russia, US foreign policy and nuclear proliferation

From his country dacha, the Soviet Union's top America-watcher discusses Putin's Russia, US foreign policy and nuclear proliferation. (By Jonathan Power.) Georgi Arbatov, the éminence grise of the Soviet foreign policy apparatus, was waiting for me at the bus stop an hour out of Moscow. A littl

[monochrom] Let the kids break it! For science!

Neil DeGrasse Tyson, seems to be a great guy. Link -- Posted By johannes to monochrom at 2/10/2009 10:04:00 AM

[monochrom] A True Shift: Food and Sex and Human Culture

Of all the truly seismic shifts transforming daily life today — deeper than our financial fissures, wider even than our most obvious political and cultural divides — one of the most important is also among the least remarked. That is the chasm in attitude that separates almost all of us liv

[monochrom] Blog reactions: Boing Boing, Cheese and Us

Media agencies... reaction thingies: Chasnote iCPG Federated Media

[monochrom] Physics Experiment with Exploding Sledgehammer

"Warning! This may be illegal and may be unsafe in your area. Please do not do this if it is unsafe or illegal!" Link -- Posted By David Fine to monochrom at 2/09/2

[monochrom] maus auf dem mars

die maus auf dem mars. youtube ist schon ein nettes archiv http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3irC94JwEI

[monochrom] Next Friday: Unix Time Number Reaches 1234567890

Friday, February 13th 2009, 23:31:30 GMT... special point in time. Why? Unix Time reaches 1234567890. Let's party. (via metalab) -- Posted By johannes to monochrom at 2/06

[monochrom] A World Without Time: the Forgotten Legacy of Goedel and Einstein

Book by Palle Yourgrau. Mathematician Kurt Godel is widely regarded for his 1931 incompleteness theorem, which found that not everything can be proved. Godel then turned his attention to time, a subject that he mulled over with his good friend and sometimes foil Albert Einstein, In 1949, Godel

[monochrom] Military Robots and the Laws of War

It isn't just on the ground: military robots have been taking to the skies—and the seas and space, too. And the field is rapidly aadvancing. The robotic systems now rolling out in prototype stage are far more capable, intelligent, and autonomous than ones already in service in Iraq and Afgh

[monochrom] Zones of Proletarian Development

Zones of Proletarian Development (by Mastaneh Shah-Shuja) is an attempt to theorise the anti-capitalist movement from a neo-Vygotskian perspective. Using Marx, Vygotsky, Bakhtin and Activity Theory it analyses a series of proletarian activities including recent May Day celebrations in London, c

[monochrom] Stellar Dust Disaster

Texas-size asteroids make for exciting summer blockbusters, but when it comes to long-term damage, they're not the most menacing threat out there. Lurking at the edge of our galaxy are giant molecular dust clouds -- agglomerations of hydrogen gas, small organic molecules and minerals -- roughly

[monochrom] Do not push this button

http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/02/do-not-push-this-button.htm -- Posted By David Fine to monochrom at 2/05/2009 08:39:00 PM

[monochrom] technorati tags

irgendwie stimmts ja... People who used the tag monochrom also used tags like: * video, * wien, * vienna, * medie

[monochrom] Defecating Birds: The Flickr Pool

Link (via bene) -- Posted By johannes to monochrom at 2/05/2009 03:08:00 PM

[monochrom] Female as a human enhancement?

A rather nice argument by Robert Sparrow (A Melbourne based bioethicist) suggests that the transhumanist arguments that human enhancement is a moral imperative imply that we ought to use reproductive technology to ensure that our children are female rather than male. The core of the argumen

[monochrom] Vatican CSI: The Pope questions apparitions of Virgin, but only some

This is just too precious: Pope Benedict XVI is about to release a handbook to distinguish genuine divine apparitions from fake ones. You see, the Church has counted 295 apparitions of the Virgin Mary between 1905 and 1995, but only 11 of these are considered "genuine." Funny, I would have ve

[monochrom] Great China earthquake may have been man-made

Was last year's devastating China earthquake, which killed 80,000 people and left more than 5 million homeless, really just a tragic natural event? Speculation is growing that the magnitude-7.9 quake may have actually been triggered by the tremendous water weight behind a nearby dam.

[monochrom] For Prompt Control Of Senile Agitation

Link -- Posted By johannes to monochrom at 2/05/2009 02:17:00 PM

[monochrom] The Long Story Of The Cardboard Box From The Sky / Part 1

It's a long story about sponsors, cheese, phone calls, FedEx and confused Soviets. Link -- Posted By johannes to monochrom at 2/04/2009 10:09:00 PM

[monochrom] The Dark Knight: Have the Nolan Brothers been reading Borges?

Good question. Link -- Posted By johannes to monochrom at 2/04/2009 02:06:00 PM

[monochrom] Torture Chic: Why Is the Media Glorifying Inhumane, Sadistic Behavior?

In his first days in office, President Barack Obama took a pen and signed executive orders halting the use of torture, shutting Guantanamo and banning secret CIA prisons overseas, as he vowed to fight terrorism "in a manner that is consistent with our values and our ideals." Shortly thereaf

[monochrom] Bank of England's "Dress for Success" code for female employees

The Bank of England held "Dress for Success" day. On that day, they sent out a memo to female employees detailing just how they should dress for success, important now more than ever in These Economic Times, the worst financial crisis Britain's dealt with since the Depression. "Look profession

[monochrom] Small Male Chimps Use Politics, Rather Than Aggression

With most mammals, the biggest and most aggressive male claims the alpha male role and gets his choice of food and females. But a new study from the University of Minnesota suggests that at least among chimpanzees, smaller, more mild-mannered males can also use political behavior to secure th

[monochrom] emotional

auf der michael hirte homepage ( http://www.michaelhirte.net/dates.php ) ... sehr schoen das ganze, vor allem in kombination mit dem namen der booking-homepage. ==cut== Michael Hirte - live - Ein Weihnachtsmärchen gemeinsam mit Ricardo Marinello. Erzählt von Torsten Münchow 21.12.2008, 19:00 U

[monochrom] Minds and Computers: An Introduction to the Philosophy of AI

A book by Matt Carter. Could a computer have a mind? What kind of machine would this be? Exactly what do we mean by "mind" anyway? The notion of the "intelligent" machine, while continuing to feature in numerous entertaining and frightening fictions, has also been the focus of a serious and d

[monochrom] Mars rover recovers after bout of amnesia

The Mars rover Spirit is driving again this week after the ageing craft suffered a mysterious bout of forgetfulness. Link -- Posted By johannes to

[monochrom] An Opec for gas?

Russia and Ukraine fell out over the price of gas, and people in eastern Europe suffered the consequences. But the dispute affects countries further down the pipeline – particularly in Europe, which seems unable to foormulate its gas consumption policy. Lin

Re: [monochrom] eine glühende Inschrift auf der Damaszener-Klinge. Karl Lagerfeld begann zu sprechen: "... und er hatte sieben Sterne in

ich schau fast taeglich rein. es sind echt immer ein paar wunderbare schmankerl dabei. At 18:15 03.02.2009, you wrote: müde, ich hatte nichts vor außer faul und selbstzufrieden auf den Markt zu spazieren und zu frühstücken. Der voll in Seite, sein Kopf verriß sich und er prallte (mit seinem Ko

[monochrom] Invention of San Francisco

A few days past the anniversary, but this is an interesting story of how proto-cities formed and competed for prominence in the American old west. And more to the point, how San Francisco won prominence by use of linguistic jujitsu.

[monochrom] Burma: Leading saffron monk's memoir

Burmese monks are known to have played an important role in their nation's politics throughout its history. While they did not partake in mundane political processes, they traditionally held positions of moral authority, and dispensed wisdom and guidance to past kings, rulers and governments

[monochrom] Radio! Here's to You!

It is a great medium for denying the empty cult of celebrity: watch a screen talk-show and you are at least partially mesmerized by Hollywood glamour. On the radio you judge more squarely ("Who on earth is that giggling idiot?"). Radio is democratic, portable, open, free to hear and cheap to

[monochrom] There have been many Lincolns over the years

Except for the miracles of Sherman's and Grant's decisive victories in the field, Lincoln would have been defeated in 1864. How different things would look... but... For a country said to be uninterested in its past, this would seem to be a giant exception to the rule. Yet the deeper reasons fo

[monochrom] In the year 292,277,026,596

You probably have heard about the year 2038 problem... The year 2038 problem (also known as "Unix Millennium bug", or "Y2K38" by analogy to the Y2K problem) may cause some computer software to fail before or in the year 2038. The problem affects all software and systems that store system time a

[monochrom] laborzeug, borgen

hallo leute! braeuchte fuer ein kurzes filmdrehchen am montag etwas chemielaborzeug als deko. eprovetten, petrischale, pipetten, flakons, so zeug halt. hat jemand sowas von euch oder einen alten chemiekasten (kosmos etc.) in wien rumstehen? waere super! der jg

[monochrom] Bart Simpson promotes Scientology?

Ned Flanders would not approve. Link -- Posted By johannes to monochrom at 1/31/2009 11:56:00 AM

[monochrom] The Globalisation of Addiction

In his third book, The Globalization of Addiction: a study in poverty of the spirit, Bruce Alexander proposes a radical rethink of addiction. Bruce Alexander is best known - though deserves to be much better known - for the 'Rat Park' experiments he conducted in 1981. As an addiction psychologis

[monochrom] Inquiry: Grilled-Cheese Madonna

Since it came to light in 2004, it has become the quintessential holy image to appear on an item of food: the face, many say, of the Virgin Mary on a grilled-cheese sandwich. While it has sparked little piety—the Catholic church has not sanctioned it as divine—it has beecome the subject o

[monochrom] Bolivia Looking Forward: New Constitution Passed

After Bolivia's new constitution was passed in a national referendum on Sunday, thousands gathered in La Paz to celebrate. Standing on the balcony of the presidential palace, President Evo Morales addressed a raucous crowd: "Here begins a new Bolivia. Here we begin to reach true equality."

[monochrom] The funniest sentence in the Russian language?

>>the goat cried out in an inhuman voice<< Link -- Posted By johannes to monochrom at 1/30/2009 10:18:00 PM

[monochrom] Revisiting "In the Heat of the Night"

By Leonard Quart. In the fifties and through most of the sixties few if any Hollywood films dealt in a serious and authentic manner with black life. The only one that readily comes to mind is Michael Roemer's (a white filmmaker) Nothing But a Man (1964), starring Ivan Dixon as an itinerant bla

[monochrom] What The Obama Government Might Mean To The Arts

Barack Obama was sworn in on 20 January with a historic mandate for change. Extraordinary times call for bold actions and visionary ideas. Big government is back. Hopes are for an administration that is not only more progressive, but also smarter. This could be good news for the arts—as lon

[monochrom] Scandinavia, Atheist Heaven

So the typical Dane or Swede doesn't believe all that much in God. And simultaneously, they don't commit much murder. But aren't they a dour, depressed lot, all the same? Not according to Ruut Veenhoven, professor emeritus of social conditions for human happiness at Erasmus University Rotte

[monochrom] Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard

If you plan to learn Chinese, you may be interested in this enlightening and delightful piece by David Moser, University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies: Whereas modern Mandarin is merely perversely hard, classical Chinese is deliberately impossible. Here's a secret that sinologists won't

Re: [monochrom] Es vergeht die Zeit, und das Internet wird auch nich t j ünger

genau. mein foto und meinen kurztext haben sie schon wenn ich das "erste" mal was poste, dann bin ich in der liste... At 22:06 29.01.2009, you wrote: "Du vermisst einen bekannten Namen? Die neue Seite ist noch jung und im Wachsen. Autoren und Autorinnen scheinen hier erst auf, sobald sie a

[monochrom] S. M. Stirling's "The Sky People"

"The Sky People" by S. M. Stirling. Mind-candy! The first probes to Venus and Mars in 1962 revealed that we live in Edgar Rice Burroughs's solar system, which rather re-directs the Cold War. Marc Vitrac was born in Louisiana in the early 1960's, about the time the first interplanetary probes

[monochrom] The Story of Mister W.

Link -- Posted By johannes to monochrom at 1/29/2009 05:54:00 PM

[monochrom] Is It Time to Bail Out of America?

California State Controller John Chiang announced on January 26 that California's bills exceed its tax revenues and credit line and that the state is going to print its own money known as IOUs. The template is already designed. Instead of receiving their state tax refunds in dollars, Calif

[monochrom] 2 B R 0 2 B by Kurt Vonnegut

Nick DiChario envisions a not-so-rosy future courtesy of Kurt Vonnegut. "Everything was perfectly swell. There were no prisons, no slums, no insane asylums, no cripples, no poverty, no wars. All diseases were conquered. So was old age." So begins '2 B R 0 2 B', a clever short story by Kurt V

[monochrom] Is High Fructose Corn Syrup Turning Us Into Mad Hatters?

Well, it turns out that the anti-high fructose corn syrup crusaders had something to fear all along. Not just rotting teeth or hyperactivity, but evidently mercury in their children's Frosted Flakes and Fruit Gushers, too.

[monochrom] Delirious Screens: Flesh Shadows & Cool Technology

By Ted Hiebert. Behind the screen, there is nothing. Not darkness, not fantasy, not even the flickering lights of consciousness aroused. And yet, within the screen, the case is quite the opposite -- here, within the delirium of technological living we encounter an intensified imaginary, new wo

[monochrom] Helium Rains Inside Saturn, Jupiter And Other Jovian Planets

Models of how Saturn and Jupiter formed may soon take on a different look. By determining the properties of hydrogen-helium mixtures at the millions of atmospheres of pressure present in the interior of Saturn and Jupiter, physicists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the University

[monochrom] What, Exactly, Is Slumdog Millionaire?

Is it a) a portrait of the real India, b) a Bollywood-style melodrama, c) a fairy tale, or d) a stylishly shot collection of clichés? Link -- Posted By johannes to mon

[monochrom] Poe at 200

2009 marks the bicentennial of Edgar Allan Poe, arguably the most famed and influential writer in American history. Not only does his work entirely limn the culture, but he also created no fewer than two genres of popular fiction — mystery and modern horror — almost singlngle-handedly. Virt

[monochrom] 2 Euro 50 for "Force Sting"!

We got two more donations (50 cents and 2 euros) for our campaign "Force Sting", thus raising the bar to 55 euros! "Force Sting" tries to force the rock singer "Sting" ("Russians love their children too") to appear for a bad cause (e.g. skinning seal babies, atomic energy in Eastern Europe, to

[monochrom] Clever Critters: 8 Best Non-Human Tool Users

[...] a compilation of some of the most interesting animal tool use yet observed. Much more likely remains to be found: until Jane Goodall watched chimpanzees fishing for termites with sticks, scientists had been reluctant to credit animals with such sophisticated behavior — perhhaps becaus

[monochrom] Google & the Future of Books

By Robert Darnton How can we navigate through the information landscape that is only beginning to come into view? The question is more urgent than ever following the recent settlement between Google and the authors and publishers who were suing it for alleged breach of copyright. For the last

[monochrom] Smallest Possible Switch: Single Gold Atom Forms The Contact

The smallest mechanical switch plus an electronic switch of a type never seen before. That's how physicist Marius Trouwborst sums up the results of his PhD research on electric current through atoms and molecules. "The ultimate aim of nanotechnology is to use molecules for electronics," he says

[monochrom] Objectified: Documentary about Industrial Design

Objectified is a feature-length independent documentary about industrial design. It's a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It's about the people who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It's about

[monochrom] Puns involving hell, pleas for help and pointless misspellings

This chart is genius. It's about the 'Metal, Kid. I got this link via the 'Tap. Not Spinal, Crail. Link -- Posted By DNL to

[monochrom] Making Things: Gaza Edition

http://current.com/items/89666922/gaza_rockets.htm?xid=55 In this video a pair of polite young fighters in Gaza show how they make the homemade rockets which they fire into Israeli settlements. It's sort of like this instructables guide, except that

[monochrom] monochrom: "One Minute"

There is too much talking... Link (hi-res available) -- Posted By johannes to monochrom at 1/21/2009 09:17:00 PM

[monochrom] The Obama Action Figure & Its Creator

Screenkids.tv present "The Obama Action Figure & Its Creator". Link -- Posted By johannes to monochrom at 1/21/2009 11:12:00 AM

[monochrom] Supertrain! A series about a super train!

What a gem of ultratelevisionary television. The series took place on the "Supertrain", an imagined nuclear-powered bullet train that was equipped with amenities more appropriate to a cruise ship than a train, such as swimming pools and shopping centers. It was so big it had to run on very broa

[monochrom] Wanderwoerter in Indo-European languages

A nice blog entry about Wanderwoerter (words that travel between languages in a region). This is the last of the posts I promised, showing what loanwords, including Wanderwörter, look like from the standpoint of mainstream historical linguistic methodology. After this I'm going to have to stop

[monochrom] Bailouts for the banks, bullets for the people: Mass uprising of greece's youth

Why did Greek youth take to the streets? For the first time since the second world war young people have no hope of a better life than their parents. But there is also a failure of trust in politicians and all state institutions, particularly the police.

[monochrom] A Talk with Frank Wilczek

Frank Wilczek, a theoretical physicist at MIT and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (2004), is known, among other things, for the discovery of asymptotic freedom, the development of quantum chromodynamics, the invention of axions, and the discovery and exploitation of new forms of quantum

[monochrom] Why Cuba Still Matters

By Diana Raby. In the early 1990s there was near unanimity in the media, in Western political circles, and even among academics that the collapse of the Cuban revolution was imminent. Even today, many observers regard it as only a matter of time for Cuba to undergo a transition to democracy (u

[monochrom] 'Molecular Parasites' In Human Genome?

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany, determined the structure of a protein (L1ORF1p), which is encoded by a parasitic genetic element and which is responsible for its mobility. The so-called LINE-1 retrotransposon is a mobile genetic element

[monochrom] Social Networking Sites and the Surveillance Society

Social Networking Sites and the Surveillance Society. A Critical Case Study of the Usage of studiVZ, Facebook, and MySpace by Students in Salzburg in the Context of Electronic Surveillance By Christian Fuchs. Link (PDF) [via

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