I don’t see the privacy risks of replacing manned flights with UAVs for law enforcement in the United States. When one operator can fly multiple UAVs, then the privacy concerns are a lot more obvious.
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Brainstorming With Multiple Personalities
iMomus riffs on the drawbacks of traditional in-person brainstorming in a connected world where we can change personalities like clothes.
THE BABY WINDOW by Vincent VanAllen
Vincent VanAllen’s new story is an absurdist poke in the eye for egotistical super-parents.
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The Baby Window
by Vincent VanAllen
Journal of Prenatal Psychology & Health
2016 Jul;105(1):44-57.
Artificially accelerated fetal development in Homo sapiens: what is the role of the baby window?Authors: Ripley R.C., Hess N.J.
I. IMPLANTATION: The search for a guinea pig
Child psychologist Norman Hess clasped his hands and dropped to a knee. “Angela, please. Just think about watching our baby grow inside your womb, right before our eyes!”
“It doesn’t seem safe,” Angela said. She was six weeks pregnant with their first child, and already Norman insisted on treating the baby like another one of his lab experiments. “What if there’s an infection or something? I don’t know. It just seems so unnatural.” Continue reading THE BABY WINDOW by Vincent VanAllen
An Exception To A Rule
Bodies moving in liquid experience a great deal of friction, something you know from experience if you’ve ever tried aqua aerobics. In fact, it’s physically impossible for a liquid not to create this resistance, no matter the liquid or the body in question. At least, that was true until some USC researchers found a molecule that, when properly stimulated, will actually force water away, allowing it to move without resistance.
Earth The Target
As Geekpress points out, APOD’s time-lapse animation showing Earth and the asteroids that swarm around it looks like the old Asteroids video game. Only the consequence for not putting shields up in time is a lot scarier. (Caveat: the animation exaggerates the size of the Earth and asteroids — none in the animation made it inside the moon’s orbit.)