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The Implications of Playing Pac-Man With Single-Celled Organisms
h5. What the screen looks like in Riedel-Kruse's lab.
Ingmar Riedel-Kruse is a researcher and Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University has turned bacteria into Pac-Men. More specifically, he connected some electrodes to a small...
ALEX PASTERNACK
6.27.11
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Slavoj Zizek Explains Why Nature Does Not Exist
Let the consummate shark-jumping Slovenian provacateur remind you about the ("possibly":http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/world/asia/06iht-06quake.19978278.html?pagewanted=print) man-made Sichuan earthquake in order to prove his point about ecology. It...
Videodrome
6.27.11
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Kate Carraway
6.27.11
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Mac Hackett
6.27.11
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Kurt Vonnegut's Last Interview Was in Second Life
It was the first interview on Second Life.
ALEX PASTERNACK
6.26.11
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Spooky Action, Quantum Entanglement, Smites Nature In a Whole New Way
Researchers in Vienna have demonstrated that it’s possible to create a system that behaves in an entangled way, minus any actual quantum entanglement. That is, two things in a quantum system can be correlated in a way unexplainable by anything we...
Michael Byrne
6.26.11
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The Psychology of Being a Bad Umpire, and Why You Should Swing for the Fences
Why do sports teams have an advantage when they're playing at home? Consider the case of the provocative Portuguese soccer manager José Mourinho. Before April 2, when Real Madrid lost 1-0 at home to Sporting Gijón, no team of Mourinho's had lost a home...
ALEX PASTERNACK
6.25.11
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The Rise and Fall of Super-Intelligent Martians
In the Victorian era, Martians were robust and smart. What happened?
Amy Shira Teitel
6.25.11
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Animated GIF Update From Bent Festival 2011
We’re coming up on the last night of Bent Festival, New York City’s annual assembly of circuitbenders and other musical DIY hackery, and so far there’s been little time to describe the wonderfully weird sounds and imagery we’ve been experiencing.
Janus Rose
6.25.11
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Black Lips/Cerebral Ballzy Tour Diary 005: THE SCENT OF BURNING COP CARS AT NIGHT
The Black Lips/Cerebral Ballzy tour soldiers on.
Tod Seelie
6.25.11
Motherboard Blog

How to Hack the New York Times in One Easy Step
If you aren't already one of the Grey Lady's 100,000 "digital subscribers":http://motherboard.tv/2010/1/20/once-it-starts-charging-will-the-new-york-times-get-pirated, blessed with an endless supply of Top Stories, not to worry: you can pretend to be...
ALEX PASTERNACK
6.24.11
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Japanese Musical Sensation AKB48 Trick Hordes Of Fans Into Loving a CGI Popstar: Introducing Aimi Eguchi
"AKB48":http://www.akb48.co.jp/english/members/index.html is a Japanese pop act that's less of a group and more an army. Created by producer/director "Yasushi Akimoto":http://www.akb48.co.jp/english/akimoto/index.html (who also happens to be the...
Derek Mead
6.24.11
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