Here's your weekend reading: animals are smarter than you think, barbarism is not a bug, cars in cities were a mistake and the consequences of mapping glitches.
The US is the land of roadside attractions. One of those was the, short-lived, Presidents Park in Virginia; an open-air park where visitors could amble among giant presidents' heads.
Charles Stross pulls together a rather apocalyptic, but all too believable, forecast for the next decade. An explosive cocktail of climate change, mass-migration, growing xenophobia and financial crazyness.