I just want to share this link to a blog described as “A look into the future that never was”. It has a wealth of tagged images and commentary and can be searched by decade.  Link

Despite their tiny brains, bees have remarkable navigation capabilities based on their vision. Now scientists have recreated a light-weight imaging system mimicking a honeybee’s field of view, which could change the way we build mobile robots and small flying vehicles. New research published Aug. 6 in IOP Publishing’s Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, describes how the researchers … Read more

It’s the mother of all clichés. Almost no one can resist it. It’s wielded by everyone from thoughtful ex-generals to vitriolic bloggers. It crops up everywhere from Russia’s English-language TV channel to scruffy Pakistani newspapers to America’s stately National Public Radio. The Huffington Post can’t seem to live without it, and one recent book even … Read more

Mysterious and possibly nefarious trading algorithms are operating every minute of every day in American stock exchanges. The trading bots visualized in the stock charts in this story aren’t doing anything that could be construed to help the market. Unknown entities for unknown reasons are sending thousands of orders a second through the electronic stock … Read more