Posts tagged as National Security
The Horton Plains Slender Loris Shouldn't Even Bother Trying To Lie To Scientists
It's definitely nice to learn that a species thought to be extinct for 65 years is still on the planet. Specially one as cool and freaky-looking as the Horton Plains slender loris, which was recently found and photographed, for the first time ever, in a jungle in Sri Lanka by the Zoological Society of London. Where has this short-limbed, huge-eyed nocturnal primate been hiding all this time? We'll have the answer soon. With those giant peepers, that thing doesn't stand a chance of keeping any secrets from the hot new eye-tracking lie-detector system developed by psychologists at the University of Utah. Says Gerald Sanders, of the company, Credibility Assessment Technologies, that is now commercializing the system: READ MORE
The End of the 00s: The Guantanamo Gift Shop, by Spencer Ackerman
I always found it strange when polemicists denounced George W. Bush for saying, after 9/11, that Americans should go shopping. Andrew Bacevich, who's emerged as possibly the premiere root-and-branch critic of American militarism, wrote an impassioned op-ed explaining the reasoning behind that critique. "From the very outset, the president described the 'war on terror' as a vast undertaking of paramount importance," Bacevich hectored in 2008. "But he simultaneously urged Americans to carry on as if there were no war." What in the world were we supposed to do? Stand in line to fill out job applications at munitions factories? Devote a larger percentage of the day to re-spooling footage of the Towers falling? Militarize our lives even further? George Bush could never have exploited that. This was the anti-militarism critique, remember. READ MORE
