Reality Checks: Biohybrids, Fake U.S. Embassies, the Vatican Ponders Morality, and Tardigrades Have All the Sex

Elizabeth — December 6, 2016

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Biohybrid sciences and the military. (via Ars Technica)
Operating a fake US Embassy. (via NPR)
The Vatican is having a conference about the morality of artifical intelligence. I’m guessing they are not down with sex bots. (via Catholic News Agency)
Tardigrade sex. Because tardigrade sex. (via Science Alert)

Featured image credit: Phineas Jones via Flickr

Elizabeth

Elizabeth is a professional belly dancer, a flaky computer scientist, and a returned Peace Corps volunteer. She lives in Georgia (the state of the U.S., not the country) but is nonetheless somehow not a combination of stereotypes from Gone with the Wind and Deliverance. Her personal blog is Coffeefied. Operafied. Fluffified. Beglittered.

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