- New Nationwide Campaign Seeks to Stop Warrantless Use of License Plate Reader Cameras (Institute for Justice) The IJ is a profoundly libertarian organization, and one of its founders kids is a God child of Clarence Thomas, This means that it's wrong a lot of the time, but not this time.
- 13 Years Without Rain. How Drought May Have Toppled the Maya (Scitech Daily) We're going to be seeing something like this a not in the next few decades.
- A Tiny Diamond Defect Could Be Blocking Fusion Breakthroughs (Gizmodo) We are talking about inertial containment, aka laser fusion. The hydrogen is contained in a diamond capsule before the lasers are shot at it, and imperfections can ruin the implosion.
- The Faux Intellectuals of Silicon Valley (Mike Brock) Gee, the thin skinned anti-democratic, corporatist, eugenicists wack jobs in Silly-Con Valley are not great intellects? Next you'll tell me that Göring, Goebbels, Hess, Röhm, and that unpleasant man with the funny mustache weren't great philosophers?
- Scientists unlock secret to thick, stable beer foams (Ars Technica) There was literally a movie about this, starring Yahoo Serious.
- As forest elephants plummet, ebony trees decline in Central Africa’s rainforests (Monagabay) Elephants love to eat the fruits of the mahogany, and so spread the seeds.
- When bison have room to roam, they reawaken the Yellowstone ecosystem (Phys.org) They migrate, like in days of old, and the plants benefit.
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‘Star Trek’-inspired Connecticut home is listed for $1.4 million (Boston.com) This is not a Star Trek inspired house unless John Waters were to direct a film. It looks like a pile of bleached doggie poop.
I love my cats, but this is a bit much:
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