Orwellian Update: Undercover Cops Spying on Protesters via Cell Phones
Watch out, Occupiers and other protesters: the guy next to you taking cellphone snapshots may not be a…
Journalists: Why Do We Even Bother?
Why am I even writing this? Odds are that you, dear reader, don’t believe a word journalists like…
Gangster Anthropologist
Jorja Leap / Youth violence researcher / University of California, Los Angeles
Who is Bombing Mexico’s Nanotech Labs?
Policemen outside the Monterrey Institute of Technology after a letter bomb exploded there in August 2011. (A. FRANCO/AP/PRESS…
Men Dominate Campaign Coverage; And So?
Three-quarters of this year’s campaign coverage in newspapers was penned by men, according to a new survey from…
Landspeeder!
We still don’t have our flying cars, but who cares now that we’ve got a prototype of a…
Rich People + More Rich People = Less Giving
Charitable America Here’s another way the rich are different from you and me: they give proportionately less to…
Steal Your Face, Disney-style
Madame Tussaud, step aside. Walt Disney Company scientists (not at an oxymoron, it turns out) have developed a…
Digital Storage, a Dictator’s Delight
We know that ever-more sophisticated digital surveillance tools allow oppressive governments to keep an eye on what dissidents…