27 February 2013

Resident Alien ~ Cool Surprising SF Comic Story!

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Very cool graphic novel / comic Resident Alien by writer Peter Hogan and artist Steve Parkhouse! "Surviving a crash landing that rui...
25 February 2013

Glassholes ~ Google "Unintended Consequence"

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LOL, Google's getting griefed by Ryan Lawler at TC for the unintended consequences of their always-on wearable gear -- the generation o...

Warbots ~ MAVs and Other Skynet Terminators...

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Charlie Brooker writes in the Guardian that I know in my bones that a robot is going to kill you -- the new micro-drones ... "Most of ...

Rescuing Hug ~ Healing Power of Touch Revisit!

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Nice CNN piece on the Rescuing Hug one premature baby gave her twin in the NICU in 1995 and those same young women today. This was a disc...
24 February 2013

Hospital of Hope ~ Africa Mercy Ship on 60 Min!

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CBS 60 Minutes spotlights the Africa Mercy hospital ship in Togo! "Around the world, countless millions suffer with diseases that c...

Deep Inside ~ When Big Data Does Adult...

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Jon Millward has gone Deep Inside to do Big Data analysis of porn stars, adult films, and professional performances... "For the firs...

Orient Excess? ~ AJ on China's People & Power

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AlJazeera's People & Power channel shares Orient Excess about China's contradictions...
23 February 2013

Room For The River ~ NL Protective Waterworks

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Room For The River is Dutch initiative to avoid high-water flood calamities with layered defense and protective measures.

Fiery Looping Rain ~ NASA Spots Solar Flare!

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Thanks to MissC for reminding us of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and this lovely Summer 2012 video of Fiery Looping Coronal Rain!...

R.I.P. Alan Westin ~ Privacy & Freedom Pioneer

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Sad to read that Alan F Westin has passed away. In NYTimes obit, Margalit Fox writes that Westin, Who Transformed Privacy Debate Before t...

Supercomplications ~ Today We Call Them Apps

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Lovely review in the WSJ, The Watch Men , by John Steele Gordon of Stacy Perman's new book A Grand Complication ... "In the watch ...
20 February 2013

Google Glass ~ Visualizations of Wearable Life

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3Doodler ~ 3D Printing-in-Air Pen on Kickstarter...

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Check out cool 3Doodler on Kickstarter!
19 February 2013

Seaworld Freerange ~ Marine Mammals @ Large

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18 February 2013

3D DNA Nanostructures ~ Wyss Biolego Blocks

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Thanks to my MIT colleague Jose Gomez-Marquez for spotting Wyss Institute work on Building 3D Structures with DNA Bricks ...

Making of X ~ Backstory Behind Great SF Films!

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Making of Predator ... Making of Terminator 2 ... Making of Aliens ...
17 February 2013

Strip-Search Society ~ 24x7 Surveillance Age...

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National, State, Local and Private Security "concerns" are being used to rationalize creating the virtual-equivalent of a strip-se...
16 February 2013

Speculative Futures ~ How SF Inspires Engineers

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I'm fascinated by what inspires people to greatness. Among the most powerful sources for engineers are the various forms of Science Fic...

Andromeda ~ NASA APOD Shares Galactic View

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NASA APOD shares Herschel's Andromeda Galaxy ...

Clear Vision ~ Kenyan Eye Clinic is African Dream

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The BBC's African Dream series spotlights A Kenyan eye clinic with a long vision about Hurlingham Eye Care Services founded in 2007 b...