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Listen up: James West forever changed the way we hear the world
We hear the world in a much different way thanks to James West. (credit: Johns Hopkins University)
If you’ve ever used a cellphone, hearing aid, or baby monitor, listened to live or recorded music, or recorded anything yourself, you’re indebted to James West.
West is the co-inventor of the electret microphone used in all of those devices...
How Washington state became the ‘Wild West’ for drone use by law enforcement
Last year, the FBI flew a fleet of drones (a.k.a “unmanned aerial vehicles”) over Seattle and other cities. They were equipped with cameras capable of snapping thousands of high-resolution photographs, and may have carried...
Steve Ballmer invites Kanye West to lunch after rapper asks to ‘redesign’ Clippers mascot
Earlier Sunday, rapper Kanye West voiced his displeasure with the Los Angeles Clippers’ new mascot. Now, it appears he’s set himself...
Kanye West drops new album, asks Mark Zuckerberg for $1 billion to bail him out of debt
Kanye West is apparently $ 53 million dollars in debt and wants help from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The polarizing musician tweeted on Saturday that he was $ 53 million dollars in “personal debt.” Then on Sunday, he tweeted...
Inter-group violence among early Holocene hunter-gatherers of West Turkana, Kenya
The nature of inter-group relations among prehistoric hunter-gatherers remains disputed, with arguments in favour and against the existence of warfare before the development of sedentary societies. Here we report on a case of inter-group violence towards a group of hunter-gatherers from Nataruk, west of Lake Turkana, which during the late Pleistocene/early Holocene period extended about 30 km beyond its present-day shore. Ten of the twelve...