- Big Picture Items
- Spooky Science
- Culture Clash
CQ: Can we have another Roswell-like event, or have we either a) made the aliens cautious about coming near the planet or b) become too cynical or observant to fall for such a confusion or hoax again?
Full list of 14 articles after the jump!
- Big Picture Items:
- Well, someone has to..: LiveScience – Please and Thank You: How DARPA Is Teaching Robots Manners
- Can you fix something that isn’t technically broke?: Seeker – Life-Extending Discovery Renews Debate Over Aging as a ‘Disease’
- Why don’t we ask it?: MACH/NBC – Is the Universe Conscious?
- Is Science The One True Way?: Mysterious Universe – The Supremacy of Scientism: Is Science the Only Legitimate Method of Gaining Knowledge?
- Spooky Science:
- (EXTRA) Comedians can only weep as reality is funnier..: LiveScience – Climate Change Prevents Study of Arctic Climate Change
- (EXTRA) No.: Snopes – Did the ‘Doomsday’ Seed Vault Flood Due to Global Warming?
- (EXTRA) ‘We’re ok up hear, all ok, fine… how are you?’: Popular Science – Turns out the Svalbard seed vault is probably fine
- (EXTRA) The most indirect way to deliver both ends of a wire, ever..: Scientific American – China Shatters “Spooky Action at a Distance” Record, Preps for Quantum Internet
- (EXTRA) Yep, pretty much subspace comms..: LiveScience – New Quantum-Entanglement Record Could Spur Hack-Proof Communications
- (EXTRA) Turns out, we have plenty of space to put solar cells — just not land.: Mashable – China just built the world’s biggest floating solar project
- (EXTRA) Bonus! After all: two heads are better than one!: Discover Magazine – Flatworm Travels to Space With One Head, Comes Back With Two
- Culture Clash:
- At some point, everything gets a law against it.: Mysterious Universe – Dueling and Witchcraft are Coming Back to Canada
- Testing out the rules, those crazy grandmas!: The Toronto Sun/CP – Elderly women duel with canes in grocery store parking lot
- Some things may deserve laws..: NBC4i/WCMH-TV – Fashion label’s new crotchless jeans now selling for $570
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