Pakistan’s Leaders May Talk Tough, but War With India Is the Last Thing Pakistanis Want

Armed convoys are rumbling toward Pakistan’s border with India. Fighter jets are slicing across the sky. Television screens are filled with warnings of impending conflict. National leaders are vowing a decisive response to any military action. But beneath Pakistan’s drumbeat of defiant declarations as tensions erupt with India, a weary Pakistani public sees war as…

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Hijacked cicadas play music like a cyborg loudspeaker

The chirp of the cicada, the sound of many summers, has received an electronic upgrade that turns the insects into cyborg loudspeakers playing anything from Pachelbel’s Canon to the theme from Top Gun. The researchers behind the work say it could be used to spread warning messages during an emergency. Naoto Nishida and his colleagues…

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Mason Vale Cotton now: Desperate Housewives’ MJ is all grown up and swapped the small screen for the NFL field

When you look at the biggest television hits of the 2000s, you can’t go past Desperate Housewives.  The series, which ran for eight seasons, featured plenty of faces that have gone onto have incredible careers in the entertainment industry.  But others, like former child star Mason Vale Cotton, went down a different path. You probably don’t…

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South Korea’s Acting President Han Duck-Soo Resigns

South Korea’s acting president, Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, stepped down on Thursday, a sign that he plans to run to inhabit the role permanently in the June 3 presidential election. Mr. Han has indicated for weeks that he was mulling over whether to run for the June election, which was called after the impeachment and…

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