Blake Helms | Birmingham, Alabama

John Graham-Cumming is work­ing to finally make Charles Bab­bage’s vision of the Ana­lyt­i­cal Engine a real­ity.  You can sign up to pledge here

Elec­tri­cal Grid — National Geo­graphic Magazine.

I love my iPhone! That’s actu­ally prob­a­bly an under­state­ment. Life before my iPhone is a blur. My day revolves around the infor­ma­tion stored on my iPhone. The iPhone is leaps and bounds above the com­pe­ti­tion and this is begin­ning to prove to be a prob­lem. The recent deba­cle with the Google Voice app is proof of this. Apple […]

Those imor­tal words were spo­ken by astro­naut Neil Arm­strong 40 years ago today. On July 20, 1969 the dream of man to walk on the face of another celes­tial body, a dream as old as the heav­ens them­selveswas finally ful­filed. The work of thou­sands of sci­en­tists, engi­neers, con­trac­tors and astro­nauts was brought together for this […]

>Accord­ing to this arti­cle on space.com the “space ele­va­tor” is not to far away. The Lift­Port Group, the space ele­va­tor com­pa­nies, announced Sep­tem­ber 9 that it has received a waiver from the Fed­eral Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion (FAA) to use air­space to con­duct pre­lim­i­nary tests of its high alti­tude robotic lifters. The lifters are early pro­to­types of […]

>Well, it’s about to hap­pen, the first trans­plant of human facial tis­sue to a liv­ing per­son. I think that it could be a great thing for the recip­i­ent but it seems to me that there is too much risk for a “non-vital” surgery. Recon­nect­ing thou­sands of nerves and blood ves­sels before the tis­sue degrades past […]