The jokes write themselves. Hardly Joking Academic Twitter has exploded with PNAS jokes after the hilariously-abbreviated journal published a nuclear economics take. “When I got a paper in that journal, my husband kept referring to it as my ‘penis paper,’” Western University relationship sociologist Samantha Joel tweeted. “It’s important to surround yourself with people who keep… Continue reading Even Professional Scientists Think the Journal PNAS Has a Hilarious Name
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China Shows Off Drone That Drops Robodog With Huge Gun Anywhere
Described as “war dogs” that “descend from the sky.” Air Drop A video has gone viral of a large drone dropping off a gun-wielding robot dog, a terrifying vision of what the future of warfare and policing could soon look like. The footage shows a sizable octocopter drone dropping off its armed payload on a… Continue reading China Shows Off Drone That Drops Robodog With Huge Gun Anywhere
Tragic News: That Viral Giant Frog Video Is Edited to Make Him Look Huge
“We have been BAMBOOZLED.” Frogger 3D Dumpy, an Australian white frog, went viral this week for being delightfully enormous. Truly massive. An absolute unit. But sadly, Dumpy — while we still absolutely stan — isn’t actually that big. Also, he doesn’t eat bananas. Sorry, folks! Dumpy — gotta say: perfect frog name — is owned by… Continue reading Tragic News: That Viral Giant Frog Video Is Edited to Make Him Look Huge
Top Facebook Scientist Quietly Plotting “Autonomous” AIs
As the rest of the company is mandated to work towards Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse dreams, Facebook’s artificial intelligence chief is quietly building a roadmap towards “autonomous” machine intelligence. Case in point, Meta AI Chief and famed computer scientist Yann LeCun published a paper earlier this summer — and presented it last week at Berkeley — that… Continue reading Top Facebook Scientist Quietly Plotting “Autonomous” AIs
Scientists Intrigued by Worms That Break Down Plastic Really Fast
Bless these humble worms. Spit Take Researchers have discovered that the saliva of wax worms, the caterpillar larvae of the wax moths that feeds on beeswax in beehives, can quickly break down polyethylene, a material predominantly used in plastic bags that currently leads to immense waste worldwide. If the humble worms could be scaled into… Continue reading Scientists Intrigued by Worms That Break Down Plastic Really Fast
Russian Scientists Propose Plan to Launch Huge Advertisements Into Orbit Over Cities
Russian researchers are suggesting we could send hordes of satellites into space to display commercials in the night sky over cities by reflecting sunlight in vast formations. It’s a deeply obnoxious vision of the future that’s bound to irritate astronomers — who are already struggling with highly reflective satellite constellations ruining their observations — as… Continue reading Russian Scientists Propose Plan to Launch Huge Advertisements Into Orbit Over Cities
Climate Activist Conducts Interview While Being Carried Away by Police
Talk about commitment to the cause. Take Me Away There’s multitasking, and then there’s what happened on London’s Waterloo Bridge, where a climate activist gave an interview while quite literally being toted away by three burly police officers during a protest. “I’m doing this for my son,” the woman, identified only as “Lora” by the… Continue reading Climate Activist Conducts Interview While Being Carried Away by Police
Supertanker Becomes Vastly More Efficient by Adding Small Sails
Sails are making a big comeback. Come Sail Away A new crude oil supertanker launched by the China Merchant Energy Shipping company is making use of four large sails to reduce its fuel consumption. And with great results: the four 130-foot masts cut down the supertanker’s fuel consumption by an impressive 9.8 percent, the company says,… Continue reading Supertanker Becomes Vastly More Efficient by Adding Small Sails
CEO Brags That Fry Cook Robot Will Replace Obsolete Human Grunts
“It does it faster or more accurately, more reliably and happier than most humans do it.” Robot Replacement If any workforce is under the looming threat of being replaced by automation, it’s the fast food industry. One of such mechanized threats takes the form of Flippy, a hamburger flipping robot developed by Miso Robotics. Operated… Continue reading CEO Brags That Fry Cook Robot Will Replace Obsolete Human Grunts
University Fires Chem Professor After Students Complain His Course Was Too Hard
As anyone who’s taken it will probably tell you, organic chemistry is notoriously difficult. It’s widely recognized as a “weed out” course — disproportionately high failure and withdrawal rates are common, if not expected, and many argue that such rigorousness is an effective filter for keeping certain students from entering professions, like medicine, that they… Continue reading University Fires Chem Professor After Students Complain His Course Was Too Hard