Oil's still gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, and it's gotten so bad that some people are actually considering nuking the damaged well. Would it work? As iffy as it sounds, Russia actually sealed up ruptured oil wells with nuclear...

You can stop polishing your glasses — you're reading that right. A plan proposed to detonate a nuke to seal off that troublesome oil well is gaining support with each of BP's failures. The Russians apparently used the tactic five times between 1966 and 1981. They went four for five.

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers holds a symposium every year on Computational Intelligence and Games. Part of the symposium is a sort of "Turing Test" challenge, in which contestants program an AI to play a videogame. The objective...