This Week’s Top Comedy Video: Joad Versus the Potato
Joad Cressbeckler Fears Genetic Modification Causes ‘Wrath-Minded Taters’There’s crotchety, and then there’s Joad Cressbeckler, possibly the Onion News Network’s funniest recurring character. Here, he tackles the tough question of genetically modified crops—with a knife. Rounding out the rest of the week’s best comedy vids over at Splitsider: a US president who’s never seen Rocky, arcade…
Your Ears Might Be Better For Identification Than Your Fingerprints
On a planet hosting 6.7 billion human beings, having proof you’re unique is of tantamount importance. The ear, it turns out, may be the best identification yet. Through a new shape-finding algorithm called “image ray transform,” which boasts 99.6 percent accuracy, according to a study presented at the IEEE Fourth International Conference on Biometrics Sept.…
