Science: National Public Radio reports that
scientists at MIT have developed a computer algorithm that can tell
when a smile is fake or genuine, and do so better than humans. Did
you know that we smile when we are frustrated?
Wired reports on a chemical crime investigation -- in 1850.
Politics: I was amazed to read (on PolitiFact,
which is generally unbiased) that the rate
of increase in US federal spending under President Obama was among the lowest of
any president since Eisenhower. Some of the credit goes to Republicans in Congress.
Computing: Wired reports on efforts by orthodox
Jews to keep the Internet morally safe. (There are allegations that
the hierarchy may be unduly controlling access to information.)
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