I’m not sure what this song is really called, but Melanie used to have to sing it all the time when she worked at the Macaroni Grill. She first sang it to us in the car and we tried to get her to sing it at a Happening, but was too modest. So, we got [...]
A Petition for Free Online Access of Taxpayer-funded Research
By Samuel Arbesman, wired.comScience 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…
Darpa, Venter Launch Assembly Line for Genetic Engineering
By Katie Drummond, wired.comThe 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.
The Future of Stuff: Vending Machine That Prints in 3-D
By Tim Maly, wired.comNo 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…