It's Princeton, Man; A Bad Week for the Unborn; Zika Beach; Leveraging a Ransom; Turkey Day 2023; and Glass Houses

Society

Princeton begins to remove 'man' from official school material foxnews

As first reported Thursday by the conservative campus news outfit The College Fix, Princeton’s Human Resources and Office of Communications issued a four-page memo princeton.edu filled with examples of gender-neutral terminology that must now be used in official school documents...

Enemies United in Fear; Switzit; Bank of England Braces for Impact; Space Fire; NASA Wants You!; Fluffy Printing; Moral Mice Genetics; Eye-Tracking Phone; Body Swap; Abortion Drone; and Blame the Christians

Syria

In Syria's Aleppo, divided locals share fear of total siege foxnews

As government forces mount attacks to close the only road to the opposition-held areas in the east of the city, rebels outside Aleppo are slowly constricting the passage to the western, government-held side. International relief organizations have warned that the city of Aleppo is "effectively cut off from humanitarian aid.

Also see Russia says 48-hour truce reached in Syria's Aleppo

Non-Binary; Shoeputer; Child's Exoskeleton; Super-Bacteria in Rio; Spy High; and Meteorites Overhead

Society

Oregon court allows person to change sex from 'female' to 'non-binary' oregonlive

...in what legal experts believe is a first in the United States....Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Amy Holmes Hehn legally changed 52-year-old Jamie Shupe's sex from "female" to non-binary.

Jumping the Stealth Gun; Gushing at the Future Now; Driverless City; Robot Bowl; Robots that Kill; Robot Babies; Robot Morality; Ark Drone; and Recycling by Hand

Today we're loaded up on robot stories! Robots preparing for the NFL, robots making baby robots (yes, that's a thing), robots being programmed to kill, and robots learning morality...from us (yikes!). All these robots remind me: If you haven't had a chance to read Why AI?, points raised there have been showing up in the news lately :)

Robot.

Military

China says first stealth fighter not yet in service, but coming soon in.reuters

In a statement, China's air force described as "unreliable" reports that the J-20 had appeared in training exercises, following a weekend state television broadcast that showed grainy pictures of what some viewers took to be the aircraft.

"At present, the J-20 has yet to be equipped for air force service," the air force said on its official microblog late on Tuesday afternoon.

The Bright of Life; DNA Thermostat; Microsoft's Really Small Data Storage Plans; AI Set Free; Skin Deep Analysis; Rise of the Robot Kingdom!; The Knock Knock Boom; Shields Active; NK Preparing Seoul Dry Run; Suspended for Being Caught; Turkey's EU Effect; Ban Begs for Ban; Rainbow Design Turned Down; Ikea Quickly Abandons 'Mum'; FL Follows NC Into the Bathroom Debate; Putin's Space Egg; Clearer Mars Images, Still no Aliens; and Shark Vision

Today's a day for the fascinating (flash of light at the moment of conception), the tiny (DNA thermostats), and the...well, the just plain insane (beauty contest judged by machines). There was also a new bathroom scuffle and hate towards a graphic design business for not designing a rainbow logo...for a church

Life

Bright flash of light marks incredible moment life begins when sperm meets egg telegraph.co.uk v

An explosion of tiny sparks erupts from the egg at the exact moment of conception.