Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me and the Thorny Issue of Robot Rights
McEwan questions what it means to be human – if these machines are just like me, does that mean they have rights, like me?
From Miniature Satellites To Giant Sun Shields – the Extreme Technology Transforming Space Engineering
While Apollo was an example of engineering on a heroic scale, future space ventures can deliver lasting societal benefits beyond flags and footprints.
Neoliberalism Has Tricked Us Into Believing a Fairytale About Where Money Comes From
There is nothing natural about money. There is no link to some scarce essential form of money that sets a limit to its creation.
I Build Mathematical Programs That Could Discover the Drugs of the Future
Discovering a new drug is one of the most challenging tasks in biology. It takes over 10 years and about US$2.6 billion to bring an average drug to market.
The Guts of an Apple iPhone Show Exactly What Trump Gets Wrong About Trade
A better way of thinking about the U.S.-China trade deficit associated with one iPhone would be to only count the value added in China, $8.50, rather than the $240 that shows up as a Chinese import to the U.S.
U.S. Poverty Statistics Ignore Millions of Struggling Americans
16 million Americans are struggling, yet they do not show up on poverty line monitoring radar screens and may not be eligible for assistance programs.
Long Hours at the Office Could Be Killing You – the Case for a Shorter Working Week
UK employees have the longest working week in the European Union. But this does not make the UK a more productive nation.
Baseball Teams Need To Protect Fans From Foul Balls
Injuries occur much more frequently than many may realize. A 2014 analysis found that more than 1,750 fans are hurt each year by batted balls at MLB games.
Why Credit Rating Agencies Are Still Getting Away With Bad Behavior
The dominant credit rating agencies – S&P, Moody’s and Fitch – have been accused of faults including: false ratings, flawed methodology, and political bias.
With Cryptocurrency Launch, Facebook Sets Its Path Toward Becoming an Independent Nation
“Like all enterprise DLT it is blockchain in name only and an monopoly to extract massive seignorage from billions of users. A monopoly scam” says Roubini.
How Quebec Got 80 per Cent of Fathers to Take Paternity Leave
Today, 80 per cent of Quebec fathers get a paternity leave when a child arrives so they can help care for their little one for several weeks.
Rory Stewart: Spies Have a Long History of Becoming Politicians
One of the surprises of the contest to become leader of the Conservative Party – and with it prime minister – has been the candidacy of Rory Stewart.
Most of US Drug Arrests Involve a Gram or Less
Roughly two out of every three arrests by state and local law enforcement target small-time offenders who are carrying less than a gram of illegal drugs.
Statistics Ruined Baseball by Perfecting It
Since sportswriter Henry Chadwick popularized the box score in the 19th century, baseball fans have had a love affair with statistics.
Soviet-Era Treatment Could Be the New Weapon Against Antibiotic Resistance
Every year an increasing number of health tourists are travelling to Eastern bloc countries to receive an old Soviet medical treatment.
AI Develops Human-Like Number Sense – Taking Us a Step Closer To Building Machines With General Intelligence
In a new study, a deep neural network was trained for simple visual object detection spontaneously developed this kind of number sense.
Chelsea Is Using Our Artificial Intelligence Research for Smarter Football Coaching
Researchers are working with Chelsea football academy to develop a system to measure decision-making skills using artificial intelligence (AI).
Lee Harvey Oswald’s Radio Interviews of August 1963 on the WDSU Radio
Oswald had two interview on the New Orleans radio station WDSU. The first program took place on August 17, 1963. The second on August 21, 1963.
Testing of Backlogged Rape Evidence Leads To Hundreds of Convictions
Hundreds of thousands of untested rape kits, also known as sexual assault kits (SAKs), languish in evidence storage facilities across the U.S.
Hackers Seek Ransoms From Baltimore and Communities Across the US
The people of Baltimore are under an electronic siege that has prevented residents from obtaining building permits and business licenses.
The War on Women Coaches
In 1972, more than 90% of female collegiate athletes were coached by women. Today that number hovers around 42% at the NCAA Division I level.
We Made a Moving Tectonic Map of the Game of Thrones Landscape
The striking landscape of Game of Thrones has led some researchers to build climate simulations that explain the erratic seasons depicted in the show.
D-DAY June 6 1944 Succeeded Thanks to an Ingenious Design Called the Mulberry Harbors
When allied troops stormed the beaches at Normandy on D-Day June 6, 1944, they were using a remarkable and entirely untested technology: artificial ports.
The Next Cyberattack Could Come From Sound Waves
Researchers from the University of Michigan have found a new way of using sound to interfere with devices containing accelerometers.
When Allen Ginsberg Met the Head of the CIA and Offered Him a Wager
Allen Ginsberg, counterculture icon, and CIA director R.Helms met in 1971 in a drawing room of the Corcoran Gallery, in a fittingly bizarre encounter.