From Adbusters, Dear Mr. Unabomber: It’s been over ten years since you’ve touched a bomb... A look at the 6 most overhyped technologies. I dream of choppers: What the curious transformation of the helicopter tells us about society. From First Science, how advanced are we as a civilisation? In 1964 soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev proposed a scale for measuring the technological advancement of an extraterrestrial civilisation. Look out, future, because here we come: scientists say the speed of human evolution increased rapidly during the last 40,000 years — and it's only going to get faster (and more and more on how culture speeds up human evolution). Research suggests we are genetically programmed to be generous. A review of Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped Our History by Dorothy H Crawford. A review of Building Genetic Medicine: Breast Cancer, Technology, and the Comparative Politics of Health Care by Shobita Parthasarathy. DNA, direct: The race for the $1,000 genome is on, but though personal genetic testing is advancing rapidly, beware of overselling.
