For me, the ideal meat (ground beef, ham, etc.) will be a near-future cultured meat that’s actually made from real animal-muscle cells, just grown and …
Le Guin on Future Writers and Freedom
For all you young (or even old) writers out there, here’s a little advice from an author who surely had some influence on the writing you read now. After a …
Kindle Voyage: The Pogue Review
David Pogue reviews Amazon’s newest Kindle for you. Despite a few flaws (the price being maybe the worst one), it seems like it might be the …
ASIMO
ASIMO — his name means Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility — visited New York City recently in order to wave at people, shake hands, walk up stairs, …
Ambition
Here’s a great-looking little film about the purpose of the Rosetta mission. It was a collaboration between Platige Image and the European Space Agency. And hey, at least …
The US and China Go All BFF for the Planet
No matter what the roadblocks may be, this is a major deal. You’ve already heard of it, surely, but in case you haven’t, the video above …
The Devil’s in the Fine Print
As Rachel shows in the above video, Nat Bates (mayoral candidate for Richmond, California) was basically bought by Chevron in an attempt to control how Richmond …
Transhuman
Why spend even a second of thought on how the way corsets work isn’t possibly the way in which certain people think they work when …
To Age or Not to Age
Would you like to live hundreds of years longer than you do now? And not as a forever-decrepit individual but as a healthy, youthful one …