Curtis Bell writes in the New Scientist: "War is becoming more and more dependent on robots such as the MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles now being used in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Autonomous robots that can move, perceive, decide and kill on their own are in the offing, as political scientist and military commentator Peter W. Singer...
I missed this post on Mental Floss last week, but I can't stop looking at it now. It's a collection of otherworldly images of Antarctica's dry valleys, and it's kind of mind-blowing.
Original Source: Vacation to Mars: Antarctica’s Dry Valleys
I love Pink Tentacle's video and photographs of snow sculptures (like this handsome ice-Gundam) from Sapporo Snow Festival 2010. Absolutely marvelous.
Original Source: Stunning Snow Sculptures at Sapporo Snow Festival 2010
The first time I entered ChatRoulette—a new website that brings you face-to-face, via webcam, with an endless stream of random strangers all over the world—I was primed for a full-on Walt Whitman experience: an ecstatic surrender to the miraculous variety and abundance of humankind. The site was only a few months old, but its population was...
A Jewish D.J. in Brooklyn finds himself defending his right to market what he calls an "Israeli remix of the keffiyeh," a symbol of Palestinian identity.Original Source: Hipster Jews Attempt to Reclaim the Keffiyeh
