Drone surfing
Oh good, drone surfing is a thing (for $17,000). Perhaps to be enjoyed by those who can afford architectural porn on the hills of Jackson Hole. On a more serious note: "Can drones protect India's women from rapists?"
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Back at It With North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons
How to Kill Kim Jong Un, if Necessary Giving confirmation to what had long been assumed, South Korean Minister of Defense Han Min-koo admits that there is an official government plan to assassinate Kim Jong-un in the case of a legitimate nuclear threat. ↩︎ posted Sept. 26, 2016 The
Stingray Manual
The Intercept recently obtained hundreds of unredacted pages of long-secret manuals for StingRay devices, which are frequently used by the FBI, Army, Secret Service, Border Patrol, IRS, NSA, and law enforcemenet agencies in at least 23 states to spy on and bug the personal phones of activists, low-level
September 12, 2016
“When Facebook is a gatekeeper for content, the model for online publishing stops being a no-standards free-for-all and becomes something more like the Big Three television networks. Mass audiences must be handled delicately, tastefully, appropriately. PG-13, at the worst.” Tom Scocca in 2015 on Facebook’s
Your Monday Public Health Nightmare
Scientists from Harvard Medical School and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have created a simple way to see how bacteria evolve as they become impervious to drugs—and it will cause you to lose sleep tonight, sorry/not sorry.
One More Time With Feeling
The movie One More Time With Feeling, which opened Sept. 8 (trailer), began production as a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Nick Cave's new album, until Cave's 15-year-old son Arthur unexpectedly died, and then it suddenly became a chronicle of grief.
Machine reads through closed books
MIT researchers develop a new computational imaging method can read through a closed book: by identifying letters printed on first nine pages of a stack of paper.
The French
In honor of US Open singles wins this weekend by Angelique Kerber and Stan Wawrinka—surely the only champ to sport a Samuel Beckett tattoo—it's fun to re-watch this bonkers-good, totally non-topical gem of tennis appreciation, William Klein's documentary about the 1981
Where Death Lies
Each year, the Japanese government expects dozens of people to die from eating ill-prepared blowfish, and yet the dish remains a delicacy.
OSIRIS-REx Is Headed to an Asteroid to Bring Back Dust
NASA launches robotic spacecraft that will visit Bennu, a carbon-rich asteroid the size of several city blocks with the hope of finding clues to the chaotic beginnings of our solar system—and a window to the origin of life. ↩︎ posted Sept. 11, 2016 OSIRIS-REx lifts off aboard an