The merits/demerits of aerial surveillance (which, I’m sure, is entirely non-representative of the kind of capabilities turned upon American citizens within our own borders) notwithstanding, you have to wonder who names this military stuff.
The new system by which drones see the people they’re about to kill is called… wait for it… Gorgon Stare.
I mean, really. What’s next–are they going to put out a bad metal album?
The Most Depressing Paragraph I’ve Read in Months!
The number of adults who read literature for pleasure sank below 50 percent for the first time ever in the past 10 years, with the decrease occurring most sharply among college-age adults. And reading may be linked to empathy. In a study published earlier this year psychologist Raymond A. Mar of York University in Toronto and others demonstrated that the number of stories preschoolers read predicts their ability to understand the emotions of others. Mar has also shown that adults who read less fiction report themselves to be less empathic.
