...says the BBC.

It is reasonable to expect that if you name a place Greenland (even though it’s just an ice-locked partially-glacier-covered island), and then pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, eventually the ice will melt and your Greenland will be green.

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In Paris there are now five vending machines serving a high-fibre alternative to Twix.

Stocked with 25 of Maxi-Livres best-selling titles, the machines cover the gamut of literary genres and tastes. Classics like “The Odyssey” by Homer and Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” share the limited shelf space with such practical must-haves as “100 Delicious Couscous” [...]

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... like this neato bike trailer

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So actually, I’m not entirely sure this—the ACLU’s new reality-of-the-PATRIOT-ACT show, coming September 6— is unreasonable. The ACLU is right that the PATRIOT ACT is unreasonable, and that its details and implications haven’t been clearly articulated to the American public really ever. And I’m glad they’re trying to remedy that. I’m just [...]

Of 9 Chinese cryptologists slated to attend and present at a California technology conference, only 1 was granted a visa in time for the meeting. Included among the researchers who were delayed was keynote speaker Xiaoyun Wang, famous among crypography enthusiasts for having broke md5 and sha-1. Together, these coding systems form the [...]

Okay. Let’s get real here. Even if a baby may have a name similar to someone on a no fly list, it is completely unreasonable to stop a young infant and suspect that he or she may be a terrorist.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that a number of infants have been stopped recently due to [...]