The Complete Book of Robots
A comprehensive new robotics handbook raises the question: Will we take these machines into our everyday lives? A Miller-McCune interview of the University of Naples' Bruno Siciliano.
Browsing Tag
August 2008
14 posts
Law and Terror
A legal analyst argues for a novel solution to the legal wars over anti-terrorism policy: Congress doing its job.
Succor. Succor in the Court.
There's a problem with problem-solving courts: Taxpayers don't understand how well they work.
Pax Americana Geriatrica
An unprecedented era of great-power aging makes it likely the 21st century will, again, be American.
OK, Maybe Joan Rivers Can Still Use It for Her Headaches …
A look at some current research that merits a raised eyebrow or a painful grin.
Oprah and the Downfall of American Society
A journalism professor finds a straw woman on daytime TV and, in the name of scholarship, knocks her right down.
Slow: Whale Xing
Biologist Christopher Clark builds sonic buoys that help ships avoid running down the last of the right whales.
Solar Power: The Next Generation
Offline Diary: An old way of turning sunlight into electricity reinvents itself in California.