Backpacker Radio #170 | Mike Clelland, Author of Ultralight Backpackin’ Tips, on Lightweight Camping, Illustrating, and How Owls Relate to UFOs  The Trek

Is there another word in the English language more thrilling for the imagination? Network executives with marketing degrees, and absolutely no imagination nor brain cells, dig something up and try to breathe new life into a franchise. And it typically falls flat, soiling a legacy like a kitten on a new duvet. Except without the […]

Connecticut heartthrob “Notorious” Nick Newell (13-1) is taking his talents to Legacy Fighting Alliance. The 31-year-old announced earlier this week that he’s coming out of retirement for a chance to cement his legacy as one of the best 155-pound fighters in the world, and convince fans that he’s…

Alan Price offers a neat synopsis of two books focusing on Hollywood’s appropriated versions of ufology and our favorite monsters. Unfortunately, the reviewer found both books to be surprisingly verbose and humorless. Fortunately for the authors, however, some people like reading that sort of thing. If your tastes run more toward the esoteric, try Altered […]

Engineers at North Carolina State University have developed a composite metal foam from steel. Less than an inch of the material can stop an armour piercing round fired from 16ft away.

These scientists discovered a new method to disperse and stabilise nanoparticles in molten metals which could lead to even more lighter metals than their new discovery. This technique allowed the team of scientists to disperse the nanoparticles evenly …

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