Coachean Feed: robot killers, Pinker on free speech, race as social construct, LWOP = CP, anti-women bias in the sciences

More links of interest to the debate community.

• Lethal autonomous robots. Oh, great. Automated killing machines with a mind of their own. Discuss. Robots at War: Scholars Debate the Ethical Issues
  
  
• Interview with Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker about free speech This may be as good as it gets. You should read all of Pinker, period.
  
  
• What Do We Know About Race? Simple. It's a social construct, and nothing else.
  
  
• LWOP is just as bad as capital punishment, and both should be abandoned? That isn't a lot of help with death penalty cases, but it may be true. The Cruelty of Life Imprisonment Without Parole
  
  
• Read 'em and weep. The gender bias against women in science is real (in case you weren't aware of it). Links in the article take you to the source material. SCIENTISTS, YOUR GENDER BIAS IS SHOWING