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The Investigations of Detective Dietrich
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (270+ words) I was a fan of the sitcom Barney Miller. My favorite character was Detective Arthur Dietrich, who was played by Steve Landesberg. What I remember were his very dry comments delivered in a deadpan, monotone. (see Best of Dietrich) Steve…...
Honeywell Archives
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (243+ words) Sept. 9, 2026, © Leeham News and Analysis: Honeywell Aerospace and the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), the Pentagon’s commercial technology arm, have completed a flight test of a quantum-sensor-based navigation system. An Embraer 170 test aircraft, guided by the experimental navigation system, flew over…...
Jurors couldn’t come to a decision on the Lindsay Clancy...
5+ day, 19+ hour ago (279+ words) Monday 7 September 2026 In China, the process is already under way. In an experiment in Shenzhen it was found that judges came to clear decisions 50 per cent faster in 2024 using an AI tool to examine evidence, leading to the tool being…...
Sydney woman buried in mushroom coffin in Australia first
6+ day, 4+ hour ago (711+ words) A Loop Living Cocoon coffin made from mycelium and lined with moss. (Source: Loop Biotech) (Source: Supplied) When Sydney woman Carolyn died, her family were looking for a way to bury her that reflected her life. On Friday, the 70-year-old…...
A typed verdict, not a paragraph
1+ week, 1+ day ago (411+ words) Make the verdict machine-readable so the decision is taken by a node — and meet the boolean that fails open on the approve branch. The reviewer has an opinion. Something now has to route on it, and a gate that searches…...
Amberbite Archives
2+ week, 3+ day ago (62+ words) Nintendo Everything Amberbite has announced the imminent release of Shoe It All on Nintendo Switch. The release date is confirmed for September 3, 2026. The main gameplay revolves around launching shoes from a swing to solve physics puzzles. You’ll “master trick shots,…...
The New York Times reported that 38 people watched Kitty Genovese be stabbed to death in 1964 and did nothing — the story that founded an entire field of "bystander effect" research. Decades of investigation later found most of the 38 weren't eyewitnesses at all, and none could have seen the whole attack from where they stood
2+ week, 4+ day ago (119+ words) A foundational tale of urban apathy that shaped decades of psychology research rested on reporting so flawed that almost nothing about it—except the murder itself—was actually true. By The Long View · Edited by Nato Lagidze Published August 26, 2026 · How…...
ChatGPT helped the FBI foil a murder plot in Florida
2+ week, 4+ day ago (193+ words) In Florida, a 25-year-old investment bank analyst was arrested after he described in detail to ChatGPT his intentions to kidnap, rape, and kill his ex-girlfriend. According to reports, OpenAI’s security systems detected the threatening content and forwarded the information to…...
The other COP
2+ week, 4+ day ago (775+ words) Emerging Europe Two-fifths of the world’s land is degrading. The COP charged with halting it sits in Mongolia this month, starved of money and of attention. Think COP, think climate change, climate catastrophe, and the largely talking shop that is…...
Decades of research say eyewitness testimony can't be trusted. These scientists say otherwise
2+ week, 6+ day ago (1625+ words) A group of psychologists believes they can re-establish the reliability of our recollections The emergence of DNA evidence in the 1980s and its widespread adoption during the 1990s revolutionised forensic science. Suddenly, leaving a hair or some blood, saliva or semen at…...