If you have seen the video that WikiLeaks that came out in the press the other day, then I am sure you have an opinion about it. If you watch the video there is without a doubt there are weapons being carried by some of the insurgents. There is also no doubt that the pilots did not willy-nilly shoot at these people, they confirmed PID (Positive Identity), and they did this several time. The pilots identified weapons multiple times, they cleared with higher command to engage, what angle to engage, etc.

Most of us have heard suggestions or exhortations that we should replace our old-fashioned incandescent light bulbs (first developed 130 years ago by Thomas Edison) with more energy-efficient compact fluorescent lamps. The difference in efficiency is significant.

Just a few weeks after element 112 was officially named Copernicium, Science News is reporting that a group of Russian physicists has succeeded in creating the element with atomic number 117.

March Madness for me this year was a double treat. First, my team, the Duke Blue Devils, won the championship. Second, I got to follow the Devils, and North Carolina Basketball in general, on WDNC. I did this over WunderRadio on my iPhone. A big thanks to the folks at WDNC/TheBuzz for a great season of Duke, Carolina and ACC basketball coverage -- especially for a listener stuck here in New England, where pro sports dominate.

When we first drove the Nissan GT-R way back in 2008, chief engineer Kazutoshi Mizuno said his Godzilla was just the start of a supercar evolution the likes of which Japan had never seen. It looks as though he's making good on that boast. After launching the limited edition $150,000 GT-R Spec V in 2009, he is turning his attention to an even more radical Spec M.

Safe Creative has been expanding its services like mad recently. It was just two weeks ago I reported on their addition of multiple author registrations and a new automated registration tool. Now, Safe Creative has made an additional announcement, this one dealing with three new features they have added, RSS integration, cease and desist letters and the ability to let others ask permission to use your work.

That sinking feeling in your stomach may actually be coming from your browser. Don't look now, but Google plans to release a browser plugin that will allow users to opt out of being tracked by … Google Analytics. Um, what? Google, leading search provider and the horsepower behind the popular Google Analytics web traffic analytics tool, is going to allow users to avoid being tracked by their own tool.

Wikimedia Commons, the multimedia repository with over six million assets, has a brand new user interface and navigation today. This is the first roll out of the usability improvements to Wikimedia projects after English Wikinews and Wikimedia Strategic Planning adopted the usability beta as default interface during its early beta phase. Our next roll-out is English Wikipedia.

As calls increase for the the Pope to resign over his alleged role in not dealing with pedophiles as the Cardinal Archbishop of Munich and subsequently head of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, I was wondering if it has any historical precedent. To my surprise, it isn't that hard to do and it has happened in the past according to the BBC.

Genetic material pulled from a pinky finger bone found in a Siberian cave shows that a formerly unknown type of pre-human lived alongside modern humans and Neanderthals. The creature, temporarily nicknamed "Woman X", could have lived as recently as 30,000 years ago and seems only distantly related to modern humans or Neanderthals.

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