High Frequency Trading: Wall Street gone mad
http://www.theguardian.com/business/...-street-insane
That Genetically Modified stuff all sounded so innocent when it started (...and we thought, what could ever go wrong?)
http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-04-2...t-dengue-fever
Plant-based food that taste like chicken ("meatless meat"):
http://www.today.com/food/today-puts...ken-1D79579619
Japan has plans for an orbital power station:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/...tal-solar-farm