Five interesting scientific articales

5. Is robot-on-robot violence bad?
     An article from Science Daily.com discusses the ethical implications of drones and fully robotized soldiers fighting upcoming wars.

Leaving aside the troubling issues raised by Bunnie Rabbot.

     Or rather, it discusses that its not too early to discuss the ethics involved.  Who is at fault when a robot kills a human? If robots only kill other robots, is there any downside? How will this change the concepts of war? Questions that need to be addressed by better minds than mine.

4. Asthmatic? Live with someone who is? READ THIS.
     Researchers are working on a 'freeze clean' method to reduce asthma causing allergens. "The process deactivates proteins found in pet dander and can remove smoke residue and other allergy-causing substances. The freezing process also kills dust mites embedded in carpets and mattresses, which feed off human skin particles and are a major cause of asthma."

I searched for 'frozen bug' and found this.

Using Mr. Freeze's tech for good? Sign me up!


3. Learn early, keep your brain alive!
     This article delineates how before puberty your brain is an amazing device that will stay better longer if you master a task. For the rest of us...tough.

Look at that smug pink bastard.

     So teach your kids how to do something well and it'll make them smarter. I feel like there's an implied 'duh' in there.

2. Diamonds everywhere
       Remember a while back when they found a planet made of diamond? No? Well, get ready to not-remember a lot more: there may be a ton of those suckers.

     Don't go hopping in your commercial spacecraft just yet: they're all super far away, even by space standards. But now 'like a diamond in the sky' is a lot more meaningful. Isn't that just as cool?

....Nope, I want giant space diamonds too.
   

1. Rich? Poor? You're gonna get cancer.
     Sorry to bring you down with the last article, but its important. This article discusses how wealth distribution and cancer are linked. Or rather, what type of cancer. People of all financial levels get it: but the rich are more likely to get "melanoma, thyroid, other non-epithelial skin, and testis" cancer. Whereas cancer related to "Kaposi sarcoma and cancers of the larynx, cervix, penis, and liver" are for us poor types.

     Just something to think about. And now, to cheer you up, marshmallows with faces.