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Design

Here's a Giant Glowing 3D-Printed Fruit Fly Brain
MIT researcher Nicolas Aimon has 3D printed a beautiful and accurate light-up model of a fruit fly's tiny brain.
Beckett Mufson
10.29.14
Premieres

Getting Toasted in the Supermarket Is Advised: Here's The Last Skeptik's "Propulsion"
White go-go boots, doing donuts, and generally wrecking shit.
Danielle Goldstein
10.29.14
You Need to Hear This

How Can Romance Be Dead When Someone Is Making Music from Their Grandparents Wartime Love Letters?
A record has been made based upon love letters exchanged during World War II.
Dan Wilkinson
10.29.14
Canada

The Canadian Navy Wants To Make Energy Efficient War Vessels
They actually want to cut down on emissions and save on diesel costs.
Ben Makuch
10.29.14
physics

Researchers at Brown University shattered an electron wave function
The new finding shows an electron's position continues to be indeterminate prior to measurement
Michael Byrne
10.29.14
Reviews

Tell All the Truth But Tell It Slant: Three Documentaries On Information Freedom
Three recent films—‘The Hacker Wars,’ ‘Silenced’ and ‘Citizenfour’—take wildly differing approaches to documenting truth-tellers.
Lucy Teitler
10.29.14
Culture

I'm the Welsh Bus Driver Who Had His Life Ruined by 'Tiger Porn'
Andrew Holland had his life upended after police mistakenly identified a video on his phone of a woman having sex with a man in a tiger costume as bestiality. Now he's campaigning to change the country's extreme pornography laws.
Frankie Miren
10.29.14
Travel

A History of 'Frestonia,' a Micronation of Squatters Who Declared Independence from the UK
How a bunch of pioneering weirdos carved out their own space in London.
Harry Sword
Harry Sword, Photos: Tony Sleep
10.29.14
mental health

The Entire Case Records from a Victorian Asylum Are Now Online
It's a bleak journey.
Ben Richmond
10.29.14
Woah, Dude!

I Auditioned for My Bloody Valentine in a Transsexual Sex Shop
And Slash flew me to California to jam with Velvet Revolver.
Steve Ludwin
10.29.14
Basketball

The NBA is More International Than Ever, But Does That Make it Global?
On opening night, 23 percent of the league's players were born somewhere other than the United States
Smriti Sinha
10.29.14
physics

Physicists must find the Higg's Boson's counterparts to prove supersymmetry
The Large Hadron Collider is being used to look for more particles after the Higgs Boson
Michael Byrne
10.29.14
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