Could robot bees replace living bees, if we wipe out the latter?

Perhaps they could, for pollinating crops. But I don't think they could do the job for all the wild plants.

Australian human rights defenders are starting to recognize the danger of face recognition.

They should recognize that license plate recognition has almost the same danger.

There have been hundreds of sexual harassment claims against UK thugs, and that counts only certain parts of the UK -- probably less than half of them.

Japan will quit the International Whaling Commission and start killing whales again.

With a decreasing population (something every country ought to have), why turn to such a morally questionable food source? It's not as if Japan needed whale meat.

Falling Total Fertility Rate Should Be Welcomed, Population Expert Says.

Waiting to welcome it if it comes is too passive. We should buy a ticket for it to come.