A video game that kills real people

The use of unmanned aircrafts in modern combat has the future of warfare looking eerily close to a video game, as this recent column from Slate Magazine points out.There are already more than 1,000 unmanned aircrafts...

Better, Faster, Stronger: Human Evolution Is Accelerating

Just like seemingly everything else in our world, humans aren't just living, thinking, acting, and moving faster -- even our evolution is accelerating."In the beginning, there was creationism, which assumed we had never evolved. Then came the theory of evolution through...

Technology Lessons from Iraq

This is pretty epic in length but interesting nonetheless -- a good roundup of the technological difficulties faced by the US in Iraq, and some proposed solutions. Still, I'm pretty wary of any self-described...

Are Liberals Smarter?

"A study says liberal brains "are more responsive to informational complexity." Test: You sit in front of a computer screen and wait for a letter to appear on it. You're supposed to tap your keyboard if it's an M, but not if it's a W. The experimenters mix it up but give you...

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