"For the first time we get to see what may be actual records kept by a scribe, whose job was to be official record keeper of a Maya community," said Boston University archaeologist William Saturno. Click the link above to learn more. BLOG POSTS  | Matthew Hutson: Can Emotions Haunt Houses?
In the 1990s Trent Reznor purchased the house where Charles Manson's "family" had murdered Sharon Tate. The house felt "sad," he's said. Last October a paper was published suggesting that we all have a tendency to believe that emotions leave a trace in the physical environment. |  | Allen Frances: Psychiatric Mislabeling Is Bad for Your Mental Health
Unfortunately, DSM 5 will make the current problems with mislabeling much worse. Its new proposals (with the possible exception of autism) all cast a wider diagnostic net that will lead to much looser and less accurate diagnosis. |  | David H. Bailey: 2001: A Space Odyssey: Art vs. 2012 Reality
What is missing is a sales pitch -- like the arms race but ideally less grim -- that made possible the Apollo program. Time will tell when and how the 2001 vision will be realized, and if it will be human or robotic. In the meantime, we all can dream. |  | Madeline Schwartzman: Harness Up That Snail and Let's Make Energy: It's Time to Feed the Table
James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau created five pieces of furniture, each equipped with a microbial fuel cell that converts chemical energy into electrical energy when bacteria are fed organic matter. Articles and blog posts about this project express repulsion at the idea of flesh-eating robots. |  | Richard Garriott de Cayeux: The Legacy of the Space Shuttle
The Space Shuttle has been the most successful space launch system ever by far. In 30 years we launched the Space Shuttle 135 times. Today more than half of the just over 500 people who have ever orbited the earth, have done so aboard one of the five space shuttles. | | MOST POPULAR ON HUFFINGTONPOST.COM |
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