Feb 11, 2012 | Forbes
V for Vendetta image via Warner Bros. When creative genius Alan Moore wrote V for Vendetta in 1982, he couldn’t have foreseen the rise of Anonymous, the online group of hacktivists who took up his protagonist’s facemask as their public identity. But Moore (who also...
Feb 9, 2012 | Forbes
Colossus image via Wikipedia During World War II, the Nazis used complex codes to obfuscate commands, and cracking those codes was one of the keys to the Allies’ success. This codebreaking was accomplished in part by Colossus, the world’s first digital, programmable...
Feb 9, 2012 | Forbes
Crickets chirp to attract mates and warn off the competition, and crickets 165 million years ago chirped (technically, “stridulated”) for the same reasons. But Jurassic-age crickets, Archaboilus musicus, were Jurassic shaped, with different forewings—which crickets...
Feb 8, 2012 | Forbes
Patrick Stewart, The Graham Norton Show Patrick Stewart and Liam Neeson know that they’ll be forever haunted by their former characters, Captain Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation and Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, respectively. We...
Feb 7, 2012 | Forbes
Image via Guardian.co.uk Today is the 200th birthday of literary hero, Charles Dickens. We all know that Dickens wrote about poverty, injustice, crime with great humor (and at great length). But there are quite a few things we don’t know about the author of A...
