Is the world ready for a robot DJ?Sometimes you have to be bold. People laughed at Microsoft when they introduced Microsoft Bob too; people didn't know they needed a graphical image of their office showing a fax machine to send a fax - until it was available. read...
read morePoor NASA. Even since a Democrat took over as president the world is convinced Americans are imperialists bent on flexing their muscles in areas like...disaster relief.Disaster relief and humanitarian assistance are just two of the 'sinister' things critics in Thailand contend NASA may secretly be involved in under the guise of monitoring the atmosphere as part of the "Southeast Asia Composition,...
read moreWhat, a herd of cattle were poisoned by cyanide in Texas?? The culprit had to be a genetically-modified form of Bermuda grass! Stupid scientists are out to kill us all with their right-wing, corporation-y greed.Only if you get your science from CBS. Or Sierra Club. Or gullible commenters here on Science...
read moreThe Canadian military has it tough these days. The legends of World Was II are only 50,000 strong and in a government that basically does not think very much of them.Oddly, they are being tasked with saving the environment in Canada.Canadian Forces Base Suffield, Alberta., is in a quiet tug-of-war with the oil and gas industry. Last year by the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board to...
read moreFundamentalist extremists don't like anything that looks like it didn't come from their religious texts. And they tend to blow stuff up that they don't like.Five years ago, the Taliban blew the face off a towering, 1,500-year-old rock carving of Buddha, called Jahanabad Buddha, which was etched high on a huge rock face in the 6th or 7th century in northwest Pakistan. Hard-line Muslims...
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