Browsing through the comments of a particularly short-sighted blog, somehow associated with NewScientist though I don't know why they would want their name on it, I came across a short article on vertical farming. It's an interesting notion, this, essentially the bastard child of a greenhouse and a skyscraper, build inside a city. The benefits are ( Read more... )

Prof Sues School Claiming Students asking too many Subversive Questions

So, apparently, even the academic worlds isn't free from bubble-headed social rejects who can't make the distinction between valid debate and ridicule. Here's a quick tutorial: when a student contends your ideas, thats debate. When you accuse students of "fascist demagoguery", ( Read more... )