Topic: Peter Singer
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Drone pilots: Why war is also hard for remote soldiers
Drone pilots are far from the battlefield, but they show some of the same signs of stress as do soldiers fighting on the ground. Now a movement in the military is afoot to assist these techno-warriors.
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Iran's keeping the US drone. But can they figure it out? (VIDEO)
Many commentators argue that the RQ-170 'Beast of Kandahar' drone is too advanced for Iran to reverse-engineer.
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How valuable is downed US drone to Iran?
US officials privately confirm that a super-secret RQ-170 drone has fallen into Iran's hands. Now they want to know what brought it down and how valuable is the loss.
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Unmanned drone attacks and shape-shifting robots: War's remote-control future
The Pentagon already includes unmanned drone attacks in its arsenal. Next up: housefly-sized surveillance craft, shape-changing 'chemical robots,' and tracking agents sprayed from the sky. What does it mean to have soldiers so far removed from the battlefield?
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Does America need a full-size, fully functioning AT-AT? Do we even need to ask?
The grassroots 'AT-AT for America' project proposes building a fully functional Imperial walker. Needless to say, Lucasfilm's lawyers aren't crazy about the idea.
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Briefing: Aerial drones as weapons of war
They have been used to attack militants in Pakistan and Afghanistan. But are their benefits outweighed by backlash on the ground?
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The Life You Can Save
Bioethicist Peter Singer challenges all of us to rethink our ideas about “a good life.”
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Record number of US contractors in Iraq
Some 190,000 private personnel were working in the Iraq theater as of early this year, a new report says.
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Diet for a more-crowded planet: plants
Rising incomes raise appetite for meat. But how many can ‘eat like an American’?
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