Korea's Hanwha Eagles baseball team have installed rows of telerobot "fans" in the stadium that are controlled by remote spectators. (Thanks, Chris Arkenberg!)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/dhmFr6aja2o/telerobotic-baseball-fans.html

Virologist Sheik Umar Khan is credited with treating over 100 Ebola patients in Sierra Leone. Read the rest

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The US government is analyzing data from what it claims is the biggest study on how pot affects how you drive.

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Two different radio telescopes have now picked up fast "burst" signals that seem to originate outside our galaxy.

Let's cut to the chase: Is it aliens?

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Keith Alexander, the former director of the National Security Administration, is filing for tech security patents related to his work running the NSA. Read the rest

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Ian Wood's beautiful drone footage of downtown Los Angeles. (via Laughing Squid)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Cd0GRAJKxik/drone-video-of-downtown-los-an.html

"Men focus on a baseball player's torso more than women, who look only at the face."

Dear Business Insider,

That is not a torso.

Best regards,
Rob

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/6GXJBwkngkk/eye-tracking-heatmaps.html

Ocean scientists Kim Martini and Miriam Goldstein explain, in detail, why the well-meaning ideas of 19-year-old Boyan Slat won't work and show you what you can do now to help stop plastic pollution.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/BAHm2XWcN5M/how-to-solve-the-problem-of-pl.html

I recently stumbled across Time Scanners, a tech-heavy, pop-science reality show. And, get this you guys, I learned things. I know. From TV. It's crazy.

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Unusually for these things, the footage captured is crisp, 4K-definition RAW shot with a coated, non-fisheye len--just kidding! It's about as good as the footage from a mid-90s Nokia communicator. [via]

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/P6eF5UAxRmE/ghost-recorded-in-spooky-theat.html

You will need a knife, a non-toxic marker, and some math.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/T2dDsYa8lsg/how-to-cut-a-bagel-into-two-in.html

Police in New York City are said to be examining some 18,000 license plate numbers, looking through social media, poring over cell phone communications, and possibly collecting DNA in an investigation into who climbed the Brooklyn Bridge late at night to plant two bleached-white American flags. Read the rest

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Alexander Borodai, and the GIF that keeps on giving. Read the rest

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First they were told they'd be allowed to read the report, then the offer was withdrawn. Why was it made in the first place? Read the rest

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Government surveillance and secrecy "are undermining press freedom, the public’s right to information, and the right to counsel, all human rights essential to a healthy democracy," reports HRW and the ACLU. Read the rest

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"A 'large percentage' of wiretap orders to pick up the communications of suspected spies and foreign agents are not being fulfilled, FBI officials said." Read the rest

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Here's what happens when you add Morgan Freeman's narration for March of the Penguins to American Juggalo.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/BBMnenpfTMY/morgan-freeman-narrates-a-jugg.html

I’m always amazed when one of my daughter’s friends comes to me and says she’s bored. As if I’m supposed to put on a pair of tap shoes and dance a jig for her. My daughter knows better than to say the B-word, but I can always tell when she’s at a loss for something to do by the way she lies limply across the arm of the couch, her head dangling towards the floor, her voice depleted of emotion. Next time this happens I will suggest Unbored (which, when she picked it up for the first time yesterday, didn’t put it down for almost an hour).

A collection of inspiring activities, projects, and articles on freeing up your creativity (by the authors as well as many other DIY experts, including an introduction by my husband Mark), Unbored offers a zillion ways to keep busy, stay engaged, and connect with the outside world. Start a band, make a zine, teach “your grown-ups” how to geocache, trick your friends into saving the planet, tell your politicians what you think, build a backyard fort, make a pet robot controller… The book is fun, instructional, edgy (create different colors of fire, take an adventurous gap year between high school and college, spray paint your bedroom walls, read banned books), and has insightful lessons on how to engage with life rather than allowing life to pass by like a boring television commercial. And as a parent, it’s nice to be reminded not to fall into the trap of smothering helicopter parenting, passive parenting (screens!), over-scheduled parenting, and all the other pitfalls of modern life that turn our kids into lethargic, helpless, unthinking slugs. Unbored belongs in every kid’s – and parent’s – library. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/9oix0o1eX04/unbored-a-zillion-ways-fo.html

In honor of the centenary of World War One, we are proud to present Simon Gane's illustrated adaptation of Osbert Sitwell's haunting, classic poem The Next War. It appears, with many other beautiful and thoughtful adaptations, in the new book Above the Dreamless Dead: World War I in Poetry and Comics. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/5zvHGebprio/the-next-war-a-comic-for-the.html

"I don’t like the way women think. They haven’t mastered linear thinking."

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