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On May 24, President Obama addressed the U.S. military’s use of drone strikes to target suspected terrorists in Pakistan, Somalaia, and Yemen--and pledged to continue to wind down those operations.

Fittingly, Bloomberg Businessweek created this map to serve as a reminder of the scope of that program., calling it the first ever "comprehensive compilation of all known lethal U.S. drone attacks."

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Daryoush Allaei thinks the wind power industry has it all wrong. Rather than turbines high in the sky, he says, it should bring wind to the ground, in concentrated form. "This is the right track. The industry has been on the wrong track."

Allaei’s Invelox "wind delivery system" is a big funnel that captures air at the top, and squeezes it through a turbine at the bottom. Wind entering at 10 MPH ends up as fast as 40 MPH, he says--meaning it’s no longer necessary to go to a hilltop for optimum conditions.

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The game of Name That Tune got a whole lot easier in the aughts when Shazam came on the scene. The music knowledge app made it simple to settle arguments about exactly what song is playing at this bar at this moment. Recently, however, Shazam got caught in a little dispute of its own.

French music channel Trace TV prides itself on its staff’s encyclopedic hip-hop and R&B; so much so that the crew was willing to face off against Shazam-equipped opponents in a tune-naming session.

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For most these days, email is a nuisance, if not an outright problem. Which means there’s a big opportunity for a mobile mail app to help us mitigate the daily flood. Mailbox, founded by a former IDEO designer, has been one of the most promising attempts to do so, introducing a smart swipe-based interface for rapidly sorting messages and a "snooze" feature for putting off messages 'til later. The app is based around a single, sound concept: Our smartphones are better suited for email triage than full-on engagement. A new app for the iPhone--actually called Triage--takes that principle to its most ruthlessly efficient extreme.

There are basically just two things you can do with Triage: Keep a message in your inbox or banish it to an archive. Messages get displayed one by one, as little square cards, with the oldest unread messages appearing first. You assign them to the appropriate place simply by flicking up or down on your screen--up to archive, down to keep. The app lets you do a bit more than that, if you must--there’s barebones functionality for replying to a note, and you can set the upward flick to 'mark as read’ or delete instead of archive--but in the main, Triage is all about, you know, triage.

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From climate change to evolution, science is under siege. The cartoons here count the ways: political interference, personal attacks, erroneous reporting, dumbing down, corporate mischief. The list goes on.

The cartoons were collected by the Union of Concerned Scientists, which represents more than 400,000 professionals and citizens around the country. "We’ve chosen 12 all-star cartoons that stand out in their ability to poke fun at the not-so-humorous challenges to the complex relationship between science and democracy," the group says.

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Poto Leifi designed belts, blue jeans, shoes and vintage jazz posters, but what he really wanted to do, in post-9/11 America, was join the Army. The only problem: Leifi, in his mid-thirities, was too old.

So he did the next best thing and crafted graphic tributes to members of U.S. armed forces who died in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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What are your earliest memories of the web? What site did you first visit? How old were you? What browser were you on?

A webpage dating back to 1991 has been unearthed, after a plea from CERN to send in files, software, and URLs from the web's earliest days. The file was found on an old Next computer similar to the one that the great Tim Berners-Lee used to lug around when he was trying to get people interested in that strange, arcane thing that was the uncharted World Wide Web.

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The New York Times has described Daniel Dennett as "perhaps America’s most widely read (and debated) living philosopher": cognitive scientist, outspoken athiest, and eminently bearded scholar.

But unlike other occupants of the Ivory Tower, Dennett does (at least some of) his philosophizing for the people. His new book, Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking, is one such tome--and in a recent and excellent excerpt for the Guardian, he shared several such thought-levers, including a method for criticism as exacting as it is gracious.

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