Category: Science & Technologizzy
They’re Coming for Your Car Keys. Welcome to the World of Self-Driving Cars
One of my favorite jokes goes like this: “I got really drunk last night, so I decided to take the bus home. Now that may not sound impressive to you, but I’ve never driven a bus before.” Stop the Presses!…
Visual World To Revert To Black-and-White
Scientists have warned that our visual world will almost certainly revert to monochrome, or black-and-white, within the next five to ten years. Those who have viewed photographs, films or television recordings made during the early or mid 20th century, will…
Tourists Flock to See Non-existent, Abstract Mathematical Concepts
The Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England, today announced the opening to the public of two further lines of longitude. For many years, the famous Zero or Prime Meridian at the Observatory had attracted increasing numbers of tourists, each wishing to…
Even casual PayPal users vexed by PayPal’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad customer service
I’ve been a PayPal user for ages. If you mistake them for a bank, you do so at your peril, because they charge the highest fees, offer the lowest interest of all (zero, for the curious), and getting customer service…
Genetic history mapped: Trump full of Neanderthal DNA
Recently, scientists at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Harvard Medical School have analyzed DNA from prehistory, to discover large population shifts ranging from 45,000-7,000 years ago. Scientist David Reich concluded that these changes in prehistoric human populations directly correlate…
Donald Trump Generator Is as Infallible as Trump Himself
Recently, leading scientists have invented a Donald Trump Generator that is 100% indistinguishable from the ‘real’ thing! See the follow excerpt, to see just how real the merely robotic, mindless and mind-numbing repetitive ramblings of this kitschy, cheap-ass imitation of the Trump…
How Monsanto Really Makes GMOs
So much controversy about GMOs, but there shouldn’t be because they really are great, as this exclusive GlossyNews video will show you. GMO foods done do a hot topic. So where is it come from? Inside the laboratory To get…
End of the Gay Dinosaurs: Fox News Steals the March on Glossy News
What do Fox News folks think about homosexuality and the end of the dinosaurs? Will male-on-male love bring about the end of the human species, just as it ended the reign of the dinosaurs? Bill O’Reilly Well, who’s to say?…
“Crypto-Leftie Tabloids” Conspiracy Theory: John Gray & Richard Dawkins Respond
A year ago, Glossy News recently gave you The Absolute Truth on how tabloid journalism in the UK works. That’s right: my recent article on how “right-wing moral panic journalism” is actually a Trojan horse for “far-left-radical-deep-cover-subversion.” Still, I thought I should…
Saving them from Themselves… What, you think They’re Animals or What?
Could it be that anti-foxhunting ideologues are the interspecies equivalent of Amnesty International and a certain scholar’s IntCom? Are they complacently presenting themselves as ‘speaking up for those who don’t have a voice?’ 😉 The lessons of Gayatri Spivak’s essay…