Open Thource

An independent company would assess the environmental and humanistic costs of various products.  These would be eco cents, and it would simply be a price tag that would appear next to the regular cost of a product.  For example, next to a slab of steak it might cost $3.37, but then $8.00 in ecocents, where as the equal amount of salmon would cost $2.30, but $1.00 in ecoce

It is interesting to me the explanations I see about how we, as human beings function and interact.When an explanation is given as to why we are able to acheive something with our bodies it is pertaining to parts of the brain (or the brains tissue) reacting, responding to stimuli. The idea that I have though is, if our brains are the sole commander in our bodies army why

Okay, so I'm a smoker. I know it's bad, I enjoy it and I know I should not but the recent banning of smokers from just about everywhere except my own house has really annoyed me. I am a smoker that knows how annoying I am to a non-smoker. I will not smoke in the presence of a non-smoker without 1)Checking it is okay and 2) Having enough room so as not to blow s

Well, as random thoughts tend to do, I had an idea this morning just as I was about to head to bed. I was thinking about magnets -- of course I was thinking about magnets, what else would I possibly be thinking about? :p And visualising the way magnets attract and repel each other based on their pole alignment. That is, the north pole will attract the south pole of anoth

I've been toying around with an idea in my head for a time but have as yet been unable to think of a way to squash it, to convince myself that it's useless. It comes down the question of light-speed travel or movement and how it might be obtained. Light has a measurable speed. 2,99 792.458 kilometres per second (the exact speed of light in a vacuum a