What does the Universe say to the I, if the Universe is a You and the I is an Eye? “We’re not so different, U and I, just some letters between us to sort out the Y.”
Science is cumulative. But to be truly cumulative, we need to be able to read and understand what has come before us. And this comes down to an issue of access.
Many scientific papers are locked away behind paywalls. But the federal…
The military-industrial complex just got a little bit livelier. Quite literally.
That’s because Darpa, the Pentagon’s far-out research arm, has kicked off a program designed to take the conventions of manufacturing and apply them…
These driverless vehicles are guided by magnetic sensors, powered by solar electricity, and they stop automatically if an obstacle appears. They are programmed to go where you ask.
Michael Molitch-Hou presents his new guidebook, entitled “Why-to: a short and helpful guide to motivate one’s pursuit of activities either a. previously not pursued or b. pursued so regularly that no one knows or remembers why they’re doing them in the first place”, to the MFA writing students at CalArts.
No matter how fast postal delivery gets, nothing beats the immediate gratification of pushing a button on a vending machine and having your purchase tumble down into the delivery box. The Chinese live crab dispenser and Art-O-Mat…