>> Uncle Sam Wants Your Brain. Writes Brandon Keim for Wired: “Drugs that make soldiers want to fight. Robots linked directly to their controllers’ brains. Lie-detecting scans administered to terrorist suspects as they cross U.S. borders. These are just a few of the military uses imagined for cognitive science.”

>> Ready for augmented reality? We’re basically talking about techy stuff that gives you “a sophisticated form of visualization that layers information over the physical world.” Writes Jamais Cascio, futurist at Open the Future: “Imagine holding up an iPhone-like device, scanning what’s around you, seeing various pop-up items and data links on your screen.”

>> Sterile male Mediterranean flies wipe out Medfly population in 3 Cali counties. This is actually a good thing, apparently. Cali got infested with foreign fruit flies, and so released sterile male fruit flies to combat the problem. Apparently, the strategy worked.

Image via Open the Future

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