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- The US to build a hypersonic missile that can hit anywhere on Earth in an hour.

White House officials confirmed last week that the president, who won the Nobel peace prize last year, is considering the deployment of a new class of hypersonic guided missiles that can reach their targets at speeds of Mach 5 — about 3,600mph.
That is nearly seven times faster than the 550mph Tomahawk cruise missiles that arrived too late to kill Bin Laden at an Al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan in 1998. 

- The Times reviews a Canadian global warming drama.

The goodies were witty, brilliant, sensitive, imaginative, attractive, sexy and great dancers - rather, I suspect, like the scriptwriters. The baddies were, well,they were all American.
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They suffer the fatal flaw of being too smug to bear. There is a global resistance, not to the facts, but to environmentalists. It appears most of us would rather fry, drown or starve than be told what to do by a bearded git in sandals, and that’s a rather comforting and cussedly human truth. 

 - A religious skeptic explains why her family joined a church.

Our family just joined a church.
This may not sound like a radical statement -- not here in America, arguably the churchiest nation in the world. But hearing these words from my own mouth feels about as natural as, "I've just joined the Marines."

- Awesome Star Wars his and hers tshirts.

- An interesting quote from 1995 about the extent to which we will rely on devices like mobiles, laptops, GPS, and iPods.

“[As] machines become more and more intelligent, people will let machines make more of their decisions for them, simply because machine-made decisions will bring better results than man-made ones. Eventually a stage may be reached at which the decisions necessary to keep the system running will be so complex that human beings will be incapable of making them intelligently. At that stage the machines will be in effective control. People won’t be able to just turn the machines off, because they will be so dependent on them that turning them off would amount to suicide.”

As you may have guessed, that quote was from Ted Kaczynski. The Unabomber.

- Donald Trump's kids are in line to take over his business. Here is his daughter Ivanka, because she is much, much prettier than The Donald.

- A whole blog dedicated to the worst sci-fi fantasy book covers.

- The oldest living animal on earth? Jonathan the Tortise. He was born circa 1832.