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The opening ceremony of the Olympics is happening right now, kicked off by a giant, colored-smoke flyover by the Royal Air Force's Red Arrows squadron. Pretty cool! Your pounds at work! But does it beat... The Super Bowl? Those RAF boys just dropped thick ropes of red white and blue (no, not that kind) over London's Olympic stadium. The crowd roared. It's fun to watch powerful jets fly over you, especially when they're dropping colored smoke. Everyone loves colored smoke. Everyone, that is, except the audience of the Super Bowl (and plenty of other yankee matches), who are treated to the Cold War thrill of a B-2 stealth bomber cruising overhead, close enough to yank out of the sky, high enough to drop its bellyful of ordnance onto a screaming crowd below. The patriotism is orgiastic. They're both pretty awesome! But as this is the Olympics, and not an English doily swap meet, there must be a winner. So who's your pick? A few things to consider: Cool name—sort ...

Jul 27, 2012 3:20 PM   Starting next month, US soldiers in Afghanistan will be wearing a Soldier Body Unit, a two-pound pack with four blast sensors, to collect data on concussions and traumatic brain injuries. The data the soldiers collect will help us better protect soldiers in the future. A thousand of these Soldier Body Unit packs will be sent to soldiers in Afghanistan to wear along with 42 vehicles equipped with floor and seat mounted accelerometers to "measure the effect of blasts on soldiers inside vehicles hit by IEDs." It's a little morbid but also necessary, the Army's Rapid Equipping Force's Chief Scientist Amy O'Brien says: "We're trying to get the data while we still can. I don't want this to sound wrong, but the data we collect from these explosions is very important for us to measure how these blasts affect a soldier's head and body" The data collected by the sensors will go to the Joint Trauma Analysis and Prevention of...