A nice collection of similar essays, including this one, here: http://amasci.com/we-nerds.html http://amasci.com/we-nerds.html Some interesting experimental s

A nice collection of similar essays, including this one, here: http://amasci.com/we-nerds.html http://amasci.com/we-nerds.html Some interesting experimental science stuff, too (Mechanical superconductor-less maglev? Pretty nifty, although it doesn't scale up, and there's video to show that it works)