Researchers hack drones. A science project anyone?
My son Benjamin once got honorable mention for his science project, which consisted of going to a firing range and seeing whether silk is really bulletproof, as it's sometimes purported to be...
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16-Ounce Cokes and 40 Joints a Month: When Government Dictates to Consumers
José Mujica is the Uruguayan Bloomberg.Like the mayor of New York, the president of Uruguay is a social engineer, convinced to the core that he knows best by getting citizens to do the right thing.Bloomberg and Mujica even have a mutual fan club going...
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At Scientific American 's weekly editorial meetings, I'm often the loudmouth.I usually try to get the last word in. When someone suggests writing a story about Google's Web-search glasses, I react from mid-viscera: "That's the worst tech idea that I've ever heard of." Maglev?...
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