Catching the sun, to catch mosquitos

Someone is thinking. Very interesting solution and nonchemical. JB

New painkiller is like morphine with few side effects - Futurity

Any painkiller has side effects! How additive is it? I hope we are finally getting smart bout this stuff. Way too many people on painkillers who don't have pain. And it messes with the way people with real pain are treated.  JB

The ‘Shadow Brokers’ NSA theft puts the Snowden leaks to shame | ExtremeTech

This is the new war that could be never-ending. We'll have t treat it like we treat a bad disease with no cure but manageable.  The cost to the nation could be extreme.  JB

MIT Biological Engineers Program Human Cells to Store Complex Histories in Their DNA

Paradigm shift! Breakthrough. Be careful!!! Using the new genetic manipulator, CRISPR, MIT researchers are building a way to store analog data at the cellular level of what is going on around and in the cell. This feels like a very unexplored technology starting to try "stuff."  We need to be careful because unintended consequences abound in living organisms!  JB

Next-gen concrete bends instead of cracking

We have seen other examples of flexible concrete. I don't know why we haven't seen them commercialized. But here is another example of a material being changed dramatically and for the better. What a difference this material would make in earthquake zones!  JB