PBS Idea Channel Looks at the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence [Video]

I’ve mentioned in the past that, in the future, there will be no jobs. I don’t just mean “unskilled” jobs and I don’t mean that everyone will be a freelancer. I mean that there will be no jobs. There may be a relative handful of people in senior administrative positions and a handful of people…

Beware the Killer Beavers of Belarus

Remember 2011, when people were talking about replacing the beaver as Canada’s national animal? Senator Nicole Eaton called beavers a “dentally defective rat” and wanted to replace them with polar bears as a symbol for the country. Well, the Senator would have a hard time making that argument in 2013 Belarus. According to the Guardian a beaver…

Supercut: All 12 Star Trek Movies in 7 Minutes.

Wanna do an entire Star Trek movie marathon in the time it takes to brew a pot of coffee? Here you go. 12 movies, including JJ Abrams, the original cast and the next generation condensed into 7 minutes. If you don’t have time for a full time nerd-a-thon, it’s a bit of a nerd booster.

The War on Drugs is a Public Health Crisis

Anti-drug warriors have proclaimed, for many years, that they were somehow protecting and promoting public health by fighting ‘illegal’ drugs. That argument has always been hollow. It ignores the public health problems caused by organized crime. Organized crime is naturally drawn to the easy profits made available by prohibition. This has caused untold death and…

If You Like Post-Apocalyptic Stories About Panda Bears, This is a Good Day

TV and movie screens are awash in post apocalyptic stories. There are zombie apocalypse stories, post nuclear-war stories, post alien invasion stories and post man-kind-fucked-everything-up-and-now-we-can’t-live-here stories but in none of those stories do they say what became of the panda bears, until now. Today the first episode of the new web series Wastlander Panda is…

A.A. Milne Reads Winnie the Pooh (1929)

Once upon a time, when the Winnie the Pooh stories were still good and long before they were turned into the horrible Barneyesque things that Disney made of them, the “Dominion” Gramophone Company of Luton, Bedfordshire had an idea. They recorded a series of British authors reading their own work. Because of that idea you can now…

Pakistani Orchestra Covers REM and Dave Brubeck [Video]

Here’s Lahor Pakistan’s Sachal Studios Orchestra doing a cover of REM’s Everybody Hurts (a concept Pakistani’s probably understand better than most) from the 1992 album Automatic People. Following that is the official video for their cover of Dave Brubeck’s iconic Take 5. [via Open Culture].

Is ‘Sharknado’ the Must See Film of the Summer?

[via Geeks are Sexy] Because the process is rigged, Sharknado (IMDB) probably won’t win any Academy Awards but how can anyone not see a movie about an extremely rare Pacific Ocean hurricane hitting Los Angeles, which causes Tornados with sharks in them? According to MovieWeb: When a freak hurricane swamps Los Angeles, thousands of sharks…

Gay Rights Activists Defy Court Ban & March in Kiev (Video)

In North America it is easy to forget that there are still places in the world where people risk prison for even suggesting that gay people should have equal rights. According to the Associated Press one of those places is Kiev, Ukraine where a small group defied a court ban and attempts to disrupt the event…