Fresh from the clogged tubes of teh intarwubs… Contraptor "Contraptor is a DIY open source construction set for experimental personal fabrication, desktop manufacturing, prototyping and bootstrapping." Sweet. Tagged with: hardware • prototype •...

Fresh from the clogged tubes of teh intarwubs… Implantable Silicon-Silk Electronics "By building thin, flexible silicon electronics on silk substrates, researchers have made electronics that almost completely dissolve inside the body. So far the...

Fresh from the clogged tubes of teh intarwubs… The Cosmopolitan Tongue: The Universality of English "As we assess our linguistic future as a species, a basic question remains. Would it be inherently evil if there were not 6,000 spoken languages but...

Fresh from the clogged tubes of teh intarwubs… Brain scanners can tell what you’re thinking about "Last week at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Chicago, Jack Gallant, a leading "neural decoder" at the University of California, Berkeley,...

Fresh from the clogged tubes of teh intarwubs… Detroit: Where Private Security Is Booming "Members of the Historic Indian Village Association, a local residents' group, share the cost of private security — about $30 per household each month....