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We’d never really thought of albinos as a group targeted for oppression and violence – the albino we pay closest attention to, rapper Brother Ali, seems pretty empowered – but a New York Times article yesterday highlighted an emerging practice in Tanzania of killing albinos for their body parts. A recent cycle of myths and [...]

The other day we got news from Wired Science that a super-cool robot had installed a live webcam way down in the depths of Monterey Bay. We remembered how excited we were the first time we heard of webcams being used for nature-watching (as opposed to porn), but that was like 10 years ago. “What’s [...]

By now we’ve all see the Obamaguration satellite pictures, which brought home once again the tremendous power of the space-bird’s eye view. Of course, there are also the various creepy government surveillance possibilities of satellite imagery, but we feel those have been adequately explored in several Hollywood blockbusters. No, for us satellite images are simply [...]