Can Digital Currencies Stay Free?

Though they’ve been largely ignored by the media, alternative digital currencies such as the Bitcoin have quietly been making inroads into financial realms once controlled by mainstream institutions and the government. With no fees, no central issuing authority and...

What’s the Reserve Currency on Saturn?

Has NASA discovered a bacterial race of arsenic-guzzling microbes on one of Saturn's moons and, more importantly, are they in need of government stimulus or bailout? Speculation ran amok in the blogosphere this past Wednesday about a “cryptic” NASA memo telling...