Vol. 46 No. 11, April - April 2015
Index
- It's stupid season. Have you been vaccinated? How the press turned a local issue into the first controversy of the 2016 presidential campaign.
- 20 years ago in reason.
- Eternal wage gaps: mandatory equality failure.
- Green seized: pot asset forfeiture.
- A modest proposal: federal racial profiling.
- Cellphone tracking: Stingray surveillance.
- Click yes for porn: U.K. Internet filtering.
- Cuba Libre: normalizing relations.
- Quotes.
- Managing Medicaid: doctor pay cuts.
- Predator bots: U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan.
- Stealth bank bans: operation choke point.
- At 2 a.m. on Christmas morning, a D.C. police detective knocked on Karen Robinson's door and asked to see a photo of her son Raymond.
- Burmese police have charged three people with violating the nation's religion law.
- Energy inefficient: bad building codes.
- In Beloit, Wisconsin, the police chief is asking residents to volunteer to let his officers search their homes for guns.
- Japanese prosecutors have charged artist Megumi Igarashi with distributing 'obscene data'.
- Just 19 of the 594 students in Paterson, New Jersey, schools who took the SAT this year scored at the level considered college-ready by the College Board.
- Llanfynydd Primary in Wales has no students.
- Since starting in Norway last year, men's underwear maker Comfyballs has introduced its product to Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom with no problem.
- The British Advertising Standards Authority has ordered Urban Outfitters to remove an ad for women's polka dot mesh briefs from its website.
- The signs in North Hempstead, New York, say the fine for not picking up your dog's poop is $250.
- Think there's a problem in South Pittsburg, Tennessee? Keep it to yourself.
- Google tax backlash: Spanish search fight.
- North Korea vs. art.
- Computers that can learn.
- Small biz burden: medical device fees.
- Charlie Hebdo in the dock: despite its stand against the terrorist's veto, France treats offensive words and images as crimes.
- Regulatory robophobia: we don't need a federal commission to govern things that go beep in the night.
- Let slip the robots of war: lethal autonomous weapon systems might be more moral than human soldiers.
- The robot revolution is here.
- Sex, love, and robots: will sexbots make human life better, creepier, or both?
- Will they take our jobs? MIT economist Andrew McAfee on driverless cars, wireless fishermen, and the second machine age.
- The settlement shakedown: federal and state governments are extracting and pocketing huge payments from big businesses, perverting justice along the way.
- Life out on the political fringe.
- Should pregnant addicts go to jail? criminalizing dependency is counterproductive and unconstitutional.
- Hi, robot: how science fiction androids became real-life machines.
- Bottoms app!(Briefly Noted) (mobile applications for alcoholic beverage delivery) (Brief article)
- How to survive a robot uprising: seeing dark omens of catastrophe in new tech demos.
- No fools.
- 1844: the year that remade America.
- Live Forever or Die Trying.
- Somalia Lived While Its Government Died: "Serious" foreign policy minds care about everything but citizens' lives.
- A 2012 paper from the international crisis.
- Send in the clones.
- Feeling Clint Eastwood's disgust: American Sniper is not a pro-war movie.
- Roombas in the big house? What to do when robots break the law.
- RoboCop 1.0.