Ars on your lunch break, part one: Rodney Brooks and robot ethics

Enlarge / Robots doing robot things. Today is the second week of our experiment connecting a podcast to the written pages here at Ars. Specifically, we’re running episodes of my tech- and science-heavy podcast (called After On) in installments. You can access these episodes via an embedded audio player or by reading accompanying transcripts (both […]

Canada's Brown, Rodney try to join De Grasse in Diamond League elite

The roar of the crowd is deafening as nine sprinters blaze to the finish line in the men’s 100 metres at the Olympic Stadium in Rome. Canada’s Donovan Bailey, who led after 85 metres of the June 6, 1994 race before losing time turning his head to the competition, crossed third in 10.24 seconds, behind […]

Sprinters Brown, Rodney need to 'give it everything' in Shanghai

Donovan Bailey expects two Canadian sprinters to set personal bests in the 200 metres Saturday in Shanghai. Relay teammates Aaron Brown and Brendon Rodney will go toe-to-toe in a strong men’s field at Shanghai Stadium at 8:20 a.m. ET in a race that will be streamed live at CBCSports.ca. “If they don’t like to compete […]