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Confronting Society’s Absurd Enthusiasm For DARPA’s Murdering ‘Mad Science’
For most of its history, DARPA was a shadow. Eisenhower signed the agency, then called ARPA, into being in 1958, in an America still trying to forget images of mustard and chlorine gas, one still...
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ARPA – The Advanced Research Projects Agency
The Financial Backbone of U.S. Computer Research The single most influential agency in the history of computer development in the United States is the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). ARPA is...
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When Space Planes Come to Town
And now China appears to be developing its own space plane, which is a miniature version of the USAF X–37B, which is itself a miniature version of the retired US Space Shuttle. “Shenlong is China’s...
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DARPA: The Data Must Flow
DARPA Grant Will Help Stanford Dig Deep into the Big Data in Social Networks Backed by a $5.6 million grant from the U.S. ‘Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’ (DARPA)and a team at Stanford,...
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Future Soldiers: Part Human, Part Machine
The U.S. military is really taking wearable technology to new levels. One has to wonder thou, just what kind of war they’re preparing for, and with whom… Different divisions of the U.S. armed forces,...
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Military Operations on Urban Terrain
Urbanized Military Operations ACHIEVING JOINT WARFIGTING CAPABILITY OBJECTIVES Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) is the capability to operate and conduct military operations in built-up...
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Society for Neuroscience in San Diego and the Big Brain Projects in the EU...
The Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in San Diego clocked record attendance. The brain is hot! Despite dismay about the recent 16-day US government shutdown, the impact of automatic budget...
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DARPA Aims to Rebuild Brains
On April 2, 2013, President Obama announced the BRAIN initiative (BRAIN is actually an an acronym for Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies – too cute), a 100 million dollar...
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Selling Fear: The First US School Installs a Shooting Detection System
If there is one thing that really irritates me more than anything else, it’s when people use fear as a sales tactic. This gives me many opportunities to be pissed off, since fear is commonly used to...
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The Future of Mind Control
All it took was a few jolts of electricity to turn ordinary rats into roborats and for pundits to leap to the conclusion that ordinary humans will soon be transformed into Robo-Humans. Scientists at...
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Remote Control of the Human Nervous System
Applied science once again play a decisive role in changing the face of armed conflict, and the rest of human affairs, by shifting the battlefield to our very brains. The national-security...
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DARPA: Self-Healing of Body and Mind
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Electrical Prescriptions (ElectRx) seeks to advance understanding of the anatomy and physiology of specific neural circuits and their role in health...
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Mind-Blowing DARPA Projects That Will Change Our World
Inside America’s Top Secret DARPA Weapons Lab (Full Documentary Go behind the scenes of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) research and development section to reveal the latest advanced...
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DARPA Looks To Create Disappearing Vehicles
A microchip created through the Vanishing Programmable Resources program goes directly from the solid to gaseous state. Photo courtesy – DARPA What if the vehicle delivering the goods to a remote...
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DARPA’s ‘Transient Electronics’ Will Disappear Anywhere
Imagine electronic medical devices, implanted to heal wounds and then dissipating inside the human body. Environmental sensors dispersed over an oil spill, collecting data before dissolving into the...
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Will Trump Negate Obama’s Science Legacy?
Will Obama’s science policy accomplishments survive? A Q&A with outgoing science adviser John Holdren In the eight years that John P. Holdren has been White House science adviser—longer than anyone...
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