Science & Technology – Week of 10.21.12

Big Brother’s New Toy: An EMP Cruise Missile
Shenandoah| 24 October 2012
Just when you thought it was safe to leave your electronics out of the Faraday cage for a day or two, along comes Boeing with a new toy for Big Brother


Scientific Proof of the Presence of the “God Field” Confirmed by CERN

Project | 30 August 2012
In what could have been a Declaration of Global Energy Independence on July 4th, 2012, CERN Research of Switzerland announced the discovery of the “Higgs” boson, also known as the “God particle”.


Shale Glut Becomes $2 Diesel Using Gas-to-Liquids Plants

Bloomberg | 25 October 2012
Drivers are next in line to benefit from the U.S. shale boom.

TSA Removes X-Ray Body Scanners From Major Airports
Transportation Nation | 23 October 2012
The Transportation Security Administration has been quietly removing its X-ray body scanners from major airports over the last few weeks and replacing them with machines that radiation experts believe are safer.


3-D-Printed Airplane Takes to the Skies

NBC News | 21 October 2012
3-D printers are already being used to create machine parts and small toys, but engineers have now used the technology to build an entire vehicle


Full-size museum replicas from a MakerBot

Boing Boing | 20 October 2012
These pieces were printed on a Makerbot Replicator 2 3D printer, by artist Cosmo Wenman, who printed them in several pieces and then assembled them.