Food: The Weak Link
Food is the new oil. Land is the new gold. An excerpt from “Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity.”
I May Have Found My Bulb!
For years I’ve been searching for the best light bulb, and I may have found it.
SciFri Book Club Catches ‘The Andromeda Strain’
The Michael Crichton classic tops the reading list.
Data Reawakening
As archivists struggle to store the mountain of data on the internet, researchers are trying to use atoms, diamonds, and DNA to let data live on forever.
The Librarians Saving The Internet
You may think that anything uploaded onto the internet is there forever—but the constant churn is a challenge to the archivists trying to backup the web.
Ghosts In The Reels
Even in this era of cloud storage, many data centers still use good, reliable magnetic tape. But as the technology develops at a faster rate, this backup is quickly becoming obsolete. What will become of the forgotten data preserved on the tape of the past?
Look Stellar With A SciFri Eclipse Tank
Buy yours today before the Great American Eclipse!