Every day, the same, again
Insect-inspired flying robot handles collisions, goes where other robots can’t.
Latest weapon for American police: GPS bullets that can track the location of a suspect’s car.
Florida Cops Made Millions Dealing Cocaine.
Breast milk protein may be key to protecting babies from HIV infection.
Broccoli could help improve cancer treatment and cure radiation sickness.
Which is healthier - coffee or smoothies? It seems obvious that the answer must be a smoothie. But when you look into the scientific studies they reveal something much more surprising.
5 Crazy Cures that Actually Work.
Want To See An Enzyme? Check Inside Your Nose.
Problematic Labelling: The Case of “Drunkorexia.”
Why Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold—Physicists Solve the Mpemba Effect.
Why is broadband more expensive in the US?
Say you’re a supervillian. Your goal is not to take over the world, but to create more unpleasantness. So you set out to create a device that would ensnare normal, rational people and turn them into ranting lunatics. What would your Argument Machine look like? How would it work?
I challenged hackers to investigate me and what they found out is chilling.
How would an astronaut falling into a black hole would die.
15 years ago, President Clinton signed the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, which retroactively extended copyright protection. As a result, the great creative output of the 20th century, from Superman to “Gone With the Wind” to Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” to Mickey Mouse, were locked down for an extra 20 years. Will they do it again?
On Malcolm Gladwell’s recent book, David and Goliath, which promotes the idea that apparent disadvantages are often actually advantages, and in particular suggests that dyslexia might be Good For You.
Can we excavate evidence of witchcraft and witches?
Three and a half thought experiments in philosophy of mind.
Kanji are the adopted logographic Chinese characters that are used in the modern Japanese writing system along with hiragana, katakana, Hindu-Arabic numerals, and the occasional use of the Latin alphabet.
How To Get Happy RIGHT NOW: Sex, Exercise, Socialize.
New York City soundscape, circa 1930
Japanese artist makes mini 3D masterpieces out of coffee froth.
Have you ever wished your undergarments could be more social? The tweeting bra.
3 photos of people posing with their own hearts.
Selfies at Funerals. [Thanks Tim]
