Kurt Poropatich

  • Do Not Try This in London: A Video Guide to 'The Anarchist Cookbook'

    From Cairo to Vancouver to Anonymous to London, breaking the system apart is what the cool kids are doing this summer. Forty years ago, angst over domestic turmoil left behind by the Vietnam War led an American named William Powell to write a guidebook...

  • When Resonance Attacks

    On July 5th, a 39-story office/shopping center building in Seoul, South Korea started to shake rapidly. For ten minutes vertical tremors violently rocked the building, causing an immediate evacuation of the premises. After the shaking subsided...

  • NASA's Plea for Future Work

    _42 years after man set foot on the moon, the future of our space program is struggling not to slip._ The Space Shuttle has its last foot out the door, the funding for the James Webb telescope (supposed Hubble replacer) has "just been canned":http...

  • The Spectacle of the Space Shuttle

    The launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis this Friday marks the end of a technological and national era. In the 30 years of NASA's space shuttle program, six orbiters were built, 135 launches occurred, 355 astronauts went for the ride, and 14 never came...

  • There's Life in the Cosmos, Just Not the Will To Find It

    _7/25/11 Update: The website "SetiStars":https://setistars.org/ is currently having a public donation challenge to make over $200,000 in the next few weeks_ Last month, the alien-hunting Allen Telescope Array (ATA) in northern California went...

  • The Kid Who is Single-Handedly Making NASA Cool Again: A Q+A

    Given what it's got to promote, NASA sucks at marketing itself. If the space agency were a guy in your high school he’d be that awkward loner who everyone loves for doing awesome stuff like hacking the school’s website to post an impromptu snow day.