DARPA
Can You Supercharge Your Brain?
Applying mild electrical currents to your head could take away pain, help memory, and improve attention—and the U.S. military is very interested.
The Merry Pranksters Who Hacked the Afghan War
It was a dark time in a long, drawn-out war. Afghanistan was festering with resentment. The Pentagon brass were desperate. It was the kind of last-ditch moment when authorities start throwing an era's weirdest ideas at its most hopeless bureaucratic mistakes.