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The singularity art of Jonty Hurwitz 23 Jan 2013 | 04:55 am
The art of Jonty Hurwitz is more than forward-looking.
The 14 biggest carbon bombs that could doom the planet 23 Jan 2013 | 04:51 am
Are the following fossil fuel extraction projects—all oil and coal. This new report from Ecofys reveals which will contribute most to climate change, in the number of gigatons of carbon each will emit...
The 130 things that scare the world’s biggest brains 23 Jan 2013 | 04:40 am
Your fears are probably a lot more grounded.
High tech ‘road trains’ turn highways into old trains 31 May 2012 | 09:23 pm
Cars have been turning into trains for a while now. The evolution is almost complete. (From my latest at Motherboard) Behold the road train: a convoy of cars, each synched up with a truck out in fro...
Lower Dens “Propagation” Video: Androids commune with nature 31 May 2012 | 09:15 pm
That’s one interpretation anyway. And Lower Dens new record Nootropics is great, one of the better explorations of our sloppy unease with the modern technofied world to come along since granddaddy OK ...
The truly immense value of public art 30 May 2012 | 09:47 pm
The value of public art is massive, and not in a generalized or ambiguous way. Planetizen, via Urban Land: At [LA's] Wilshire Vermont Station images of murals painted by environmental artist April G...
Half of Germany can run on solar power. We can do it too 30 May 2012 | 09:28 pm
This is what can happen when citizens and government agree that it’s worth spending a bit more for clean, carbon-free power: German solar power plants produced a world record 22 gigawatts of electric...
The pregnant lady in the window seat might be a bomb 30 May 2012 | 09:16 pm
(My latest for Motherboard) No longer content to stuff bombs in its agents’ underwear and socks, al-Qaeda is now hoping to actually surgically implant explosives inside what would have to be some ser...
“Time” by Merchandise is swirly future guitar rock 30 May 2012 | 09:10 pm
Pretty good tune here:
Climate change could spread “AIDS of the Americas” to U.S. 30 May 2012 | 10:39 am
In a splashily headlined editorial, the Public Library of Science has declared Chagas disease “The New HIV/AIDS of the Americas.” Sure enough, Chagas disease is exceptionally nasty. It’s transmitted b...
