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Propeller Mag has been collecting the various terrible covers for Karel Capek‘s super great War With the Newts.
An affront to human decency: proper nouns to be allowed in Scrabble.
Fascinating lost turn of the century female sex study.
...moreThe Context Project is seeking to blur the line between industrial design and fine art. It is also totally rad.
Yesterday marked the 31st anniversary of the first robot homicide and the 50th of bubble wrap. So watch out I guess.
...moreThe jokes write themselves sometimes–on the same day that the sitting President of the US wins the Nobel Peace Prize, we bombed the moon. To be fair, we had warned the moon repeatedly about pulling all that romantic shit.
When this thing can catch and eat bugs to power itself, call me.
...moreArchitecture porn of the week: totally sick Singapore garden design.
Cakehead brings you a gallery of awesome and bizarre vintage inventions.
My new hero: Liu Bolin, extreme camouflage expert.
We are living in the future when articles start showing upo about how to regulate autonomous war robots.
...moreLots of fascinating science news this week. Here we go.
The IgNobel Prizes were given out last night, and the honored research included a bra that doubles as a gas mask, diamonds made from tequila, and the discovery that an empty beer bottle can cause more damage as a weapon than a full one.
...moreI just came across this transcript of a conversation between Paul Krugman and the sci-fi writer Charlie Stross.
They talk about why flying cars are a bad idea, what kitchens tell us about ourselves, and how “future shock” leads to fundamentalism.
...moreThis week, the book blogs have went and gone political! Maybe it’s that it’s the off year in the election cycle and they miss the rabid infighting and corruption, or maybe it’s the news that the Kindle has already become the next thought police and will soon start force-feeding you Soma, but for some reason, politics are everywhere.
...moreLet’s say you were the kind of person who thinks the Bible could use a little livening up, a little updating–you’d probably find Overthinking It’s post on fusing the KJV with the Nintendo Universe right up your alley.
If you’re the kind of person who is ready to welcome our future robot overlords, you could check out the next-next-next generation of baseball players.
...moreAnd we’re helping them learn. Okay, that’s a bit apocalyptic, and I for one welcome our new robot overlords, when they eventually show up. The link is to the latest tweenbot story from Engadget, where a group of roboticists in Munich built a robot which navigated its way across the city by asking for directions and mapping the responses.
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