1. The best fiction of 2010 (according to EW)
2. Wanna see the new World Trade Center? Wanna see it animated?
3. Awesome people doing awesome things while dressed like Santa Claus.
4. This is a camera. Or a trilobite. We’re not sure.
5. The world of drugs … in color.
6. Why people blog about illness.
7. I always knew that asparagus was evil.
8. You mean there’s a wrong way to do this?
9. Honey, I’m going to prison. For honey.
10. Someone liveblogged the moon. Definitely worth watching.
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The trilobite-inspired lensing system now being mimicked by optical scientists is an all–too-infrequent example of something I’d love to see engineers take more interest in. Mother Nature has had ( if I may paraphrase my favorite biologist, Dr. Steve Jakobi at SUNY Alfred) millions of years to shake out design bugs for just about everything. Why not take the hint ? Right now -to do what a single human mind does in processing and acting on data- the current approach to computation, with all it’s requirements for <1 in 10**8 bit error, would need more than the output of Hoover… Read more »