
A chemistry professor at the University of Louvain in Belgium has delivered his damning verdict on the COP21 climate summit in Paris. His name is István Marko and, by the sounds of it, he’s not going to be getting a Christmas card
by James Delingpole19 Dec 2015, 4:09 AM PST0

The lead designer of the Bay Bridge is warning that the cables holding up the eastern span are vulnerable because of water leaking into the twin steel boxes anchoring them.
by William Bigelow4 Oct 2015, 9:46 AM PST0

California’s Proposition 47 of 2014, The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, which changed some drug and property crimes from felonies to misdemeanors, has coincided with a rise in crime in parts of the state.
by William Bigelow16 Aug 2015, 1:23 PM PST0

Uber is now valued at almost $51 billion, a valuation that puts the “on-demand mobile service” (ODMS) leader at the level of Facebook in 2011. The company’s fund-raising success has spurred a vast number of “Uber for X” start-ups that are building corporate empires with legions of outsourced contract workers. But the “gig economy” seems to be operating the same money-losing business model as the “Dot-com Bubble.”
by Chriss W. Street3 Aug 2015, 5:59 AM PST0

Caltrans director Malcolm Dougherty admitted on Thursday that the sleeves of 120 of the 400 “high-strength” rods anchoring the tower of the new Bay Bridge to its foundation are immersed in salt water that could corrode them.
by William Bigelow5 Jun 2015, 11:47 AM PST0

In modern society, of course, much of the complexity in our lives is placed there by governments, supposedly acting to “help” us avoid failure or to “protect” us from failure.
by Rich Tucker9 May 2015, 12:06 PM PST0