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Road safety: confronting sculpture shows human vulnerability to crashes

Graham, designed by a trauma surgeon, a crash investigator and an artist, has no neck, meaning he cannot break it

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Stingray Robot Powered by Light, and Living Rat Cells

Among other applications, a new artificial stingray can teach scientists more about how the heart beats.

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Who Is the Last Active Player in This Long-Dead MMO?

“I'm the only hiker here, you're not real.”

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A Video Game Inspired by Philip K. Dick’s Sci-Fi Worlds

The developers of Californium call their game a “love letter to Philip K. Dick.”

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Microsoft is deleting its AI chatbot's incredibly racist tweets

"Tay" says she supports genocide and hates black people.

How did they not know that this would happen.  

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CERN Seeks International Artists For Full-Time Residency

The European Center for Nuclear Research is calling for art submissions for its annual award

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I know we already do enough reading around here, but this other reading venture looks kinda promising.

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Meet the BOSS, the Largest Structure in the Universe (So Far)

Astronomers recently discovered a wall of galaxies 1 billion light years across, larger than anything else yet identified in the cosmos

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Let's get this Skynet shit over with.

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Vernor Vinge - Foresight and the Singularity - Interview

Interview with renowned author Vernor Vinge - about the Technological Singularity, ways to think about it, strategic forecasting, future studies and risk. Sp...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tngUabHOea0

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circa 1993

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Eternal 5D Data Chip Can Record All Of Human History

In order to preserve our stories, we used to carve and paint rudimentary images and basic text into stone tablets and onto the walls of caves. Nowadays, any of us can store hundreds of thousands of documents onto a cheap, thumb-sized USB, preserving them for decades. Scientists at the University of Southampton have taken this one extraordinary step further, announcing that they have developed a method to record data that could outlast the human race itself.

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Artist Martine Syms 2013 piece calling for a new Afrofuturism.

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LA Celebrates Science Fiction Legend Octavia E. Butler With a Year of Events

Octavia E. Butler died 10 years ago, but the power of her work and her inspiring life story haven’t dimmed one bit. Los Angeles arts nonprofit Clockshop has organized a yearlong series honoring the Pasadena native, “Radio Imagination,” with works created by artists and writers given full access to Butler’s archives.

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Thank you Soloman

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SpaceX Falcon 9 Landing Test Captured By On-Board Cam | Video

The private space company's Falcon 9 re-usable rocket technology was tested on its last flight on July 14th, 2014. Engine restart, landing legs and ocean touchdown at near zero velocity was recorded. See the launch: http://goo.gl/v8e5MS