Guy Bentley The American Heart Association (AHA) is worried that young Americans are shunning tobacco cigarettes in favor of e-cigarettes. In a press release following the publication of the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s 2015 Monitoring the Future Survey, the American Heart Association said: While the downward trend in teen cigarette smoking is a wonderful…
The Ride-Share Market Serves The Labor Force & People Are Mad by Avens O’Brien The internet outrage machine is at it again, with Twitter & Facebook angry yet again at the surge pricing of Uber. In case you’ve been living under a rock, Uber is an app for your phone that enables people to request rides from…
Andrew Follett The United States benefited enormously from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in 2015; but media outlets have mostly focused on headlines about earthquakes and aquifer pollution — neither of which have sufficient evidence to draw conclusions. From foreign policy to cheap domestic energy and even booming job growth, here are five key stories the media…
Andrew Follett NASA announced Monday that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is halfway completed, but the project is $7.2 billion over its initial budget and 7 years behind the original schedule. The telescope has a long history of major cost overruns and delays. The JWST was initially projected to cost $1.6 billion and should have been launched in…
Supporting the development of alternative fuel sources is undoubtedly important; whether it be solar, wind, or… cheese? A French power station is taking the waste products from a nearby cheese factory and using it to power as many as 1,500 homes. Edie.net reports: The power plant in Albertville, Savoie, owned by biofuel producers Valbio, uses…
What’s the coolest thing you’ve made at home? Meet the 26 year-old hack who built a self-driving car in his garage! George Hotz, the first person to hack the iPhone, says he built a self-driving car in a month. How did he do it? Bloomberg’s Ashlee Vance went to Hotz’s home to find out… and…
Guy Bentley A policy rider that could’ve saved 99 percent of the e-cigarette of from de facto prohibition failed to make it into the House’s omnibus spending bill released Tuesday night. The rider would’ve changed the Food and Drug Administration‘s (FDA) rules requiring all e-cigarette products released after February 15, 2007, to undergo the costly Pre-Market Tobacco Applications…
The dream of flying cars is slowly becoming a reality. Feast your eyes on the TF-X, the flying car of the future. Such designs are becoming more common as mankind seeks to expand on its ability to leave the ground. The concept of owning a flying car is awesome– but one cannot help but think…
Steve Ambrose Some verbal jabs from a European official critical of PlayStation’s network security ignited unsubstantiated claims that PlayStation services were used in the Friday Paris terrorist attacks. Jan Jambon, the interior minister of Belgium, told Politico Nov. 10, the “most difficult communication between these terrorists is via PlayStation 4. It’s very, very difficult for our…
Steve Birr It only took a month for electric car sales to drop 90 percent after a 15 year old tax credit for electric car buyers expired in Georgia. The $5,000 subsidy for electric vehicles expired last June and has gutted the electric sector, reducing popular green models like the Chevy Volt to single digit…