Above is a low resolution scan from the Oxy Weekly. As a form of punishment, employees of the Occidental Weekly were asked to write about other employees and their careers at Occidental College and their futures. I wrote Tim’s little bio and Tim wrote mine and then someone I don’t know wrote Dane’s. Enjoy it [...]
I like the site, Mike. I really do. I just realized my chair doesn’t have any armrests, which is surprising and a little annoying. After all, my chair at home has armrests… I think. Maybe I’m imagining things! After all, the sour grapes are always greener on the sunny side of the street, am I [...]
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…