Archive for October, 2015
Yet Another Costly F-35 Glitch: Ejection Seat Could Kill Pilots
October 22nd, 2015Via: Fiscal Times: The Defense Department’s multi-billion dollar F-35 Joint Strike Fighter effort has hit a new snag, and it’s one that could take anywhere from a year to 18 months to fix, according to the program’s chief. Earlier this month Defense News reported the Pentagon had learned the fifth-generation airplane’s ejection seat could cause […]
Flite Test Guys Build “Back to the Future” USA TODAY Drone
October 21st, 2015By the way, if you’re interested in r/c aircraft, or have children who are, Flite Test is fantastic. Via: Flite Test:
Paralyzed Man’s Arm Wired to Receive Brain Signals
October 21st, 2015Via: MIT Technology Review: Scientists at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio say they’ve used electronics to get around a paralyzed man’s spinal injury, permitting him to use an implant in his brain to move his arm and hand. The test represents the first time that signals collected in the brain have been conveyed directly […]
First Gene-Edited Dogs Reported in China
October 21st, 2015Via: MIT Technology Review: Man’s best friend is now his newest genetic engineering project. Scientists in China say they are the first to use gene editing to produce customized dogs. They created a beagle with double the amount of muscle mass by deleting a gene called myostatin. The dogs have “more muscles and are expected […]
Alabama: For Offenders Who Can’t Pay, It’s a Pint of Blood or Jail Time
October 21st, 2015Harvest time. Via: New York Times: Judge Marvin Wiggins’s courtroom was packed on a September morning. The docket listed hundreds of offenders who owed fines or fees for a wide variety of crimes — hunting after dark, assault, drug possession and passing bad checks among them. “Good morning, ladies and gentlemen,” began Judge Wiggins, a […]
New York City’s X-Ray Vans
October 20th, 2015Via: The Atlantic: Dystopian truth is stranger than dystopian fiction. In New York City, the police now maintain an unknown number of military-grade vans outfitted with X-ray radiation, enabling cops to look through the walls of buildings or the sides of trucks. The technology was used in Afghanistan before being loosed on U.S. streets. Each […]
Britain: “Submissions to Theresa May’s Child Sex Abuse Inquiry Accidentally Deleted”
October 20th, 2015Via: The Guardian: Information provided by alleged child abuse victims to the overarching inquiry set up by Theresa May has been deleted due to a blunder, it has emerged. Submissions sent through an online form to the inquiry between 14 September and 2 October were “instantly and permanently deleted” on Thursday before they reached staff. […]
In Nigeria, Solar-Powered Fridges at Outdoor Markets Save Food From Spoiling
October 20th, 2015Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. — Via: Gizmodo: In developing countries, an unbelievable 45% of food goes bad because of a lack of cold storage. It’s an especially big problem during transportation from farms to outdoor markets, where food sits in the scorching sun for hours on end. But one startup […]
Is the Retarded Trend of Men-Wearing-Women’s-Pants a Population Reduction Program?
October 19th, 2015For a few years, I’ve been baffled by the ridiculous trend of men wearing skinny jeans. It’s easy to just shake your head and pass this off as yet another aspect of the zombie apocalypse. (In the town closest to me, they like to add a blown-out bluetooth speaker blaring rap music to the ensemble […]
Emails Reveal Tony Blair’s “Deal In Blood” with George Bush Over Iraq War
October 19th, 2015Via: Daily Mail: A bombshell White House memo has revealed for the first time details of the ‘deal in blood’ forged by Tony Blair and George Bush over the Iraq War. The sensational leak shows that Blair had given an unqualified pledge to sign up to the conflict a year before the invasion started. It […]
