Category Archives: Science

Make those walls transparent at the flip of a switch or programming matter

Programmable Matter FAQ From the FAQ Programmable matter is any bulk substance whose physical properties can be adjusted in real time through the application of light, voltage, electric or magnetic fields, etc.¬† Primitive forms may allow only limited adjustment of … Continue reading

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About Jaron’s concept of phenotropics

4. In Praise of Diversity – Ideas 2003: Jaron Lanier On Software Design – CIO Magazine Jan 1,2003 “The thing I’m interested in now is a high-risk, speculative, fundamental new approach to computer science. I call it phenotropics,” says the … Continue reading

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See the citations

CiteSeer: The NEC Research Institute Scientific Literature Digital Library From the site: CiteSeer is a scientific literature digital library that aims to improve the dissemination and feedback of scientific literature, and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, … Continue reading

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Tickleing nueral networks

STLtoday – News – Science & Medicine Thaler, the president and chief executive of Imagination Engines Inc. in Maryland Heights, gets credit for all those things, but he’s really just “the man behind the curtain,” he says. The real inventor … Continue reading

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Rover videos…

Mars Exploration Rover Mission: Multimedia

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Light, light, light

SPIE–The International Society for Optical Engineering. The Optics, Photonics, Fibers, and Lasers Resource. SPIE is a not-for-profit society that has become the largest international force for the exchange, collection and dissemination of knowledge in optics, photonics and imaging. Founded in … Continue reading

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Strange Science News

atomcc science nature technology genetics weird news SCIENCE NEWS NOT FIT TO PRINT BUT WORTH THE READ Conspiracies, Cool Science, Mad Science, Biotechnology, Military and Nuclear News, Our Environment, and a little Pseudoscience

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NPR’s Science Friday from Talk of the Nation

Science Friday: Making Science Radioactive

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Dangerous Experiments

Welcome to Dangerous Laboratories! Not sure where to categorize this.. These guys go a bit far with some of these things (particularly the lazers and jet powered bicycles) but it sounds like fun….

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I might have to get cable for this..

Cable Science Network home CSN: Cable Science Network

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