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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.

  • Technolotics #27 – How easy to kill you all

    [audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/27_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 27 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Notes How Easy to kill you All   One journalist wondered just how easy it would be to create a biological WMD. Scientists have always been skeptical that individuals or terrorist groups about the idea that individuals or small groups are capable of creating bioweapons. In their opinion “A significant Read more

  • Interview: Suw Charman – Open Rights Group

    A video Interview with Suw Charman of the UK’s Open Rights Group, covering Digital Rights, Copyright Reform, Privacy, Data Retention, Automatic Vehicle Tracking and other issues. Listen: Suw Interview Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Read more

  • Special Report: Rioters clash with Police in Dublin City Centre

    Special Correspondent: Fiona Doyle Location: The Heart of the Violence!! Note: For a less fictional account of todays events, go here. Today at approximately midday, Dublin City Centre became the scene of a swarm of violent protesting angry Northern Irish men, and some ladies too. Cars torched, O’Connell St closed off at 1pm, eye witness Read more

  • Technolotics #26 – Supernatural Selection

    [audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/26_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 26 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Notes Bullying Causes Brain Damage An experiment where mice were repeatly placed in cages with larger dominant aggressors found that levels of BDNF (Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor) were decreased ‘bullied’ mice went on to behave in a socially avoidant manner which could be ameliorated with anti-depressents Using viral transfection – Read more

  • Technolotics #25 – The White Episode

    [audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/25_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 25 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Notes PS3 Sexclusive According to kikizo.com, last month sony shipped the final PS3 dev kits to developers Still no signs of final hardware – the cases you’ve seen are just mockups “I think to fit everything that Sony wants in there AND leave space for a 2.5 inch hard drive,” Read more

  • Technolotics #24 – Jabbamushies

    [audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/24_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 24 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Notes Psilocybin Mushrooms Banned They grow naturally on earth They’ve been used to religious, meditative, and personal insight for thousands of years They are completely non addictive But the ‘loophole in the law’ has been closed – and they’ve become a class A drug Tainaiste (vice president / deputy prime Read more