http://www.cracked.com/article/18357_5-tiny-technologies-that-will-doom-us-from-inside-out/

http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/21/kiro-robot-teaches-korean-kindergarten-by-day-discusses-kandins/Read more... )

http://www.komonews.com/news/va?vaid=a4233aa7f95ff6bdf6d53f05453174d1

Science Fiction, Space Exploration | Space.com

http://www.space.com/11200-nasa-100-year-starship-interstellar-travel.html

The next 50 years of spaceflight will carry many challenges and surprises for explorers hoping to extend their reach ( Read more... )

"[The] Intelligent Systems Laboratory in Sweden [has] just invented a robot that can lie. And not just about the little things like who broke your great-grandfather's heirloom vase or whether your wife has man visitors recharge her batteries while you're not home -- no, it lies about life or death things . . . literally"The robots in question are ( Read more... )

Robert Brockway, a columnist and blogger for Cracked.com and webmaster of iFightRobots.com. has produced one of the most fascinating and downright terrifying books it has ever been my (mis)fortune to run across. Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody: The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You Dead, a collection of his well-researched essays on ( Read more... )

http://www.cracked.com/article_19011_5-sci-fi-apocalypses-government-actually-planning-for.html

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/31jan_r2/

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1010/21lcross/

Astronauts exploring the moon's south pole should bring a shovel ( Read more... )

Just received this in an email from a friend:

Massed school choirs in a suburb of Minneapolis....singing the Battle Hymn of the republic. (Warning: this will bring tears to the eyes of any American who still has his or her soul)

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(A commenter said that the embedded videos didn't show what they were supposed to. So the original URL for this video ( Read more... )