Guaranteed to cause controversy: Apparently some Asian glaciers are gaining ice. Just remember: global warming climate change will never be proved or refuted with one study, no matter how badly headline writers want you to believe it.NASA wants you to plan the trip to Mars. When budgets collapse, crowdsource.An excellent economic analysis of cybercrime in the NY Times suggests that trying to rob people online is hardly lucrative or easy. In other words, the idea that hackers are jacking millions in glamorous heists isn’t totally correct.A new Pew study found that a whole lot of Americans still don’t have internet access, and, as you’d expect, it’s divided across economic and education lines.David Carr weighs in on the Apple ebook lawsuit: “But pull back a few thousand feet and take a broader look at the interests of consumers From the very beginning and with increasingly regularity, Amazon has used its market power to bully and dictate.”OH GOD, DARPA built a bunch of new robots and they can do all these things we always thought only humans could do. Terminator is nearly here.Canada isn’t all fun and games: Apparently some of our neighbors to the north are really pissed off about “radical environmentalists” that have taken over Washington. Lead image via Foreign Policy.The B-52 bomber just turned 60 years old, and yet scores of them are still in active service, thanks to solid maintenance and continual development. Think of how much development costs have been defrayed over that time period.More lawsuits: the Oracle suit against Google, after having potential damages fall from billions to tens of millions, is finally coming to court.Me-ow! Google co-founder Sergey Brin says Facebook and Apple are the biggest threats to internet freedom.Engineered stem cells have been successful in attacking HIV in mice.
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