Sci&Tech History

Technology give thieves a new way to steal, through identity. It work like several computer virus which pretend to be the real file or program and then enter your computer. Identity thieves work in a similar way, they stalk on your identity in the internet, gain information about you, and then draw money from your [...]

Aaaargh! I think I am an internet-addict. The first thing I do after I awake every morning is checking email through my hand phone. Worst, I already set my hand phone so it receive my email periodically, every 4 hours, but I keep on checking it every hour manually. I think, things are turning a [...]

When I following energy and climate change issues, I realize that this discourse reach beyond how to save the world, yet involve ethics and the whole universe creation. For me, it is quite similar with pantheism who see the universe or nature and God are equivalent. This tendency can be observed through argumentation and impact [...]

How can universities or academician play role in nation competitiveness? How about business or government? Can they have a specific role or their role are being re-structured again and again? One way to define their role is through indicators known as cum to decide whether a scientist or academician in the university have play their [...]

There are always something left behind in uncertainty: hope, prejudice, etc. In ancient times, the unexplained phenomena will be labeled as god/goddess area or sometimes, people who have the ability to cure other people or do something unusual will be see as a peacock, dukun, or even a witch. After renaissance, the blank spot was [...]

Last week, I have the opportunity to go to Papua, the most east province of Indonesia. There are a lot of things that make me wondered: culture, technology penetration, outsiders, local people and how every elements seems to be messed up without any grand strategy. For instance, internet. In one hand, the local government has [...]

Why do we have to accept new technologies? Who can guarantee that the new device will bring prosperity and welfare to our life? On the other hand, can we avoid change? For instance, traditional tribe who hasn’t wear any cloth yet, is it a matter of democracy–to let other people life as their beliefs, or [...]

Do you have any tendency in buying something? By clustering list of what you have bought by using your credit card, we can get some understanding about people and a certain product. A person who like to buy product A, for example, maybe have some similarities with someone who like watching metal music or literature [...]

This is not a Chip ‘n Dale, story, this is a story about worm (C. elagans), a tiny nematode that serves as a model organism in so many fields of research. In much C. elegans work, researchers introduce mutations or otherwise manipulate the genome to see the impact on the developing organism. Large numbers of the [...]

I’ve got this cool article from ScienceNow, an alike explanation I found in a book about happiness. The book tells about how our expression when we smiling have a physical reaction to our body. Below is the article from ScienceNow. The Importance of Being Frightened By Gisela Telis ScienceNOW Daily News 16 June 2008 Why do we wrinkle our noses [...]