Officials at an Alabama university have divulged a new plan to use unmanned aerial drones to help police monitor, and supposedly protect, students on campus. Law enforcement officials unveiled the plan Wednesday at a press conference at the University of…
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President Obama Stresses Importance of Science and Technology as National Academy of Sciences Celebrates 150th Anniversary
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President Obama Stresses Importance of Science and Technology to the Nation’s Future from The National Academies on Vimeo. The National Academy of Sciences is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. President Barack Obama addressed the group in Washington, D.C. on…
Study Shows Natural Gas Fracking Contaminates Water From Treatment Plants
FRACK FLOW – Treated wastewater flows out of a sewage plant in Pennsylvania. Facilities like this one sometimes treat water produced during natural gas production – By Kyle Ferrar – When energy companies extract natural gas trapped deep underground, they’re…
Spring Forward: An Alternative Plan for the Future
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – While the vernal equinox and the first day of spring is still 10 days off, since Daylight Savings Time begins today and the weather has warmed up and the sun’s shining for…
Obama Administration Partners With Industry in the War Against Cyber Threats, Hackers
By Glynn Wilson – The Obama administration is partnering with industry in the war against cyber threats and hackers, according to an address on Thursday by Robert S. Mueller, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to security professionals in…
What Will the Alabama Super Tea Party Majority Do Next?
The Big Picture – by Glynn Wilson – CAMP GUNTER HILL, Ala. – The rain has finally stopped in Montgomery, after a February deluge that swelled creeks to overflowing and made for a soggy government tea party downtown. The boys…
Alabama May Be Number One in Football
But It’s Also Home to The Number Two Worst Power Plant in the Country for Mercury Pollution – Alabama Power’s Miller Steam Plant on the Locust Fork River held the number one distinction for a few years – By Glynn…
Neil Armstrong’s Death Marks the End of an Era
The Big Picture by Glynn Wilson Reading the obituaries for Neil Armstrong over the past couple of days, I’m reminded again of the month when I came kicking early into this world. If timing means anything, it was an auspicious…
Why Are Americans So (fill in the blank)
In the months before a U.S. Presidential election, the quality of political discourse hits new lows, according to Renee DiResta, who along with her husband Justin Hileman, has come up with an interesting interactive map to show what states are…
Air Force Secret Space Plane Lands in California After Mysterious Mission
The U.S. Air Force’s robotic X-37B space plane finally returned to Earth Saturday, wrapping up a mysterious mission that lasted more than year in orbit. The unmanned X-37B spacecraft, also known as Orbital Test Vehicle-2 (OTV-2), glided back to Earth…
Freedom of the Press is Not Free
The Big Picture by Glynn Wilson It’s summertime in Alabama now. No matter what the official calendar says. The mercury hit 91 here today. That was probably in the shade. We just got back from the local farmer’s market, where…
The State of American Journalism on the 40th Anniversary of Watergate
The Big Picture by Glynn Wilson Most American journalists are asleep in their comfortable beds this Sunday morning, their newspapers put to bed hours ago. Why, you may ask, do I sit here on the screened-in porch in the suburbs…
Southern Environmental Law Center Files Letter of Intent to Sue Against Oil and Gas Leases
The Potential for Gas ‘Fracking’ in the Talladega National Forest May Be At Stake by Glynn Wilson The Southern Environmental Law Center on behalf of WildSouth and the Natural Resources Defense Council has officially filed a letter of intent to…
Hey, Your Technological Anxiety and Fear of Change Ain’t My Fault, Dangit
The Big Picture by Glynn Wilson We’ve been discussing some high level, complicated science here of late, but for my average working Southern American audience, let’s take it down a notch for a few minutes today. Now I know my…
Environmental Groups Object to Gas Drilling in Talladega, Conecuh National Forests
Glynn Wilson An early autumn view of Devil’s Den looking downstream from the waterfalls in the Talladega National Forest (click on the image for more photos) There will be a public meeting at the Heflin Park and Recreation Department near…
Web Blackout Protest Impacts Copyright Debate in Washington
NY Tech Meetup/More Photos Emergency NY Tech Meetup Advance Story by Glynn Wilson You’ve got to love it when the public gets involved in the Democratic process. Thousands of Websites and who knows how many tens of thousands of people…
White House Responds to Petition on Alleged Threat to Open Internet
Combating Online Piracy while Protecting an Open, Innovative Internet Guest Column by Victoria Espinel, Aneesh Chopra, and Howard Schmidt Thanks for taking the time to sign this petition. Both your words and actions illustrate the importance of maintaining an open…
Al Henley Elected President of the AFL-CIO of Alabama
Al Henley of Montgomery was elected president of the AFL-CIO of Alabama this week. In this exclusive interview with The Locust Fork News-Journal, he talks about the state convention, what organized labor’s plans are for the next year in Alabama…
Senate Minority Leader Roger Bedford Interviewed at AFL-CIO Convention
Alabama Senate Minority Leader Roger Bedford, a well-liked and respected Democrat, had some interesting things to say about politics and new technology at the AFL-CIO Convention this week. Watch the video to see my interview with him.
In Memory of Steve Jobs – The Crazy One
Just now getting set up in the campground on the mountain top and taking in all the tributes to Apple’s Steve Jobs. Below is an original Mac ad we ran in The Southerner magazine online back in the late 1990s,…
Freedom of the Press is NOT Free
The Big Picture by Glynn Wilson It is a cool 72 degrees in the foothills of the Appalachians, a time of year we long for during the long, hot dog days of summer. The cooler temperatures and the ability to…