Nokia Series 40 Security Alert

Nokia confirmed last week a big security flaw in its Series 40 operating system that allows hackers the ability to install and run remote code of any type on these phones without the users permission and consent. The consequences for this are enormous with over 100 million of these budget phones existing in the world. [...]

Olympic Blue Screen of Death?

While most of us perceived the Beijing Olympics going off without a hitch, with perfectly syncronious dancers, extravagent performances and an impressive list of technology. However, according Gizmodo and a large number of independent observers, one of the screens in the bird’s nest blue screened during what was otherwise a nearly flawless the Opening Ceremony. [...]

Who Are You? – Part 1

Some of us wake up in the morning buzzing with delight, while others bemoan the moment and wish they could just sleep in. Some people prefer to write their work on paper, while others make the decision to type away. And even when we are very much like other people, there are many subtle differences [...]

The Awoken Dragon

The Beijing Olympic Games of 2008 has opened up with a bang—a $300 million opening ceremony that wowed a global television audience of more than one billion people. The event was another historic moment in China’s long and eventful history, which has brought together people from all over the world to compete for the pride [...]

Running the Numbers

Today in The Seeker Daily we launch the final new series in our daily edition—Onedrous. These articles will be about topics which have an impact on the human mind—everything from classic philosophical questions to the latest cognitive theories. Today in Onedrous, we analyse the work of modern American artist Chris Jordan as he makes works [...]

The Climate Change Debate

This week in Scianite we’re doing another recap edition composed of approximately the second third of my ToK presentation on climate change.In this article, we examine the biases and limitations of two opposing groups arguing for and against that human carbon dioxide emissions have resulted in manmade climate change – the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate [...]

Grand Chinese Ce^$0rsh]P

Techday is coming out a little later this week, but still in time before the Beijing Olympics. Although one person told me this topic was “off-limits”, today I’m going to try to look at what online censorship is, what is the significance of resticting internet access to the Chinese population, whether information can truely be [...]

Government Action on Climate Change

In today’s Manfesto, I’ll step back from the production schedule and show you one section (approximately the last third) of my ToK presentation on why the differing views about how we should deal with climate change, and the potential solutions to the problem. In this section, I analyse the impact which governments have had in [...]

The Straightforward Oxymoron

Today’s The Seeker feature article looks at the weird world of oxymorons in language. Its one thing to have organic fruits and vegetables, clean coal and absolute uncertainty, but how did these things ever come about anyway, why do we choose to use oxymorons compared with more linguistically straightforward language, and what does this tell [...]

The Savage Solo Journey

In this new article in The Seeker Daily, we introduce the final piece of the weekly puzzle in “How They Changed Your World” which looks at the impact which individuals have had on the broader society, and the various issues that result from this. In this first article, we start by looking at Roz Savage, [...]