Technology is the active human interface with the material world.

On the history of autism and the dramatic increase of diagnoses in Silicon Valley.

Is this it? "Until now, solar power has been a daytime-only energy source, because storing extra solar energy for later use is prohibitively expensive and grossly inefficient. Daniel G. Nocera, the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy at MIT, has developed a simple method to split water molecules and produce oxygen gas, a discovery that paves the way for large-scale use of solar power." "The new catalyst works at room temperature, in neutral pH water, and it's easy to set up."

Excellent videos!

Holy shit. " While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch sensing enables a user to interact with a system with more than one finger at a time, as in chording and bi-manual operations."

Science and sound experiments. Excellent recordings available.

"Saturn is scheduled to release its probe named Huygens that will actually attempt to land on the shrouded moon [Titan] in early January." "Will the truth be stranger than we imagined?"

"'Today we have made history. Today we go to the stars,' said Peter Diamandis, co-founder of the X Prize Foundation."

"A privately-developed rocket plane will launch into history on June 21 on a mission to become the world’s first commercial manned space vehicle."