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24 NOV 09
Intel Wants Brain Implants in Its Customers' Heads by 2020 | Popular Science SAVE
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"scientists anticipate that consumers will adapt quickly to the idea, and indeed crave the freedom of not requiring a keyboard, mouse, or remote control for surfing the Web or changing channels."TAGS
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World around us: Experimental Soviet "flying tank" SAVE
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"The Antonov A-40 Krylya Tanka was a Soviet attempt to allow a tank to glide into a battlefield after being towed aloft by an airplane, to support airborne forces or partisans."TAGS
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Dark galaxy may be crashing into Milky Way SAVE
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"New calculations by a team of astronomers have indicated that a dark galaxy may be crashing into our own Milky Way. Called Smith's Galaxy."TAGS
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BBC News - Mussolini's 'brain and blood for sale on internet' SAVE
"The granddaughter of Italy's fascist dictator Benito Mussolini has said that blood and parts of his brain have been stolen to sell on the internet."TAGS
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Nicholas Szczepaniak – A Defensive Architecture | Interactive Architecture dot Org SAVE
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"Set in the Blackwater Estuary, Essex, his allegorical and provocative defensive architectures envisage the construction of a set of austere coastal defence towers that perform multiple functions within this dystopian future. The militarised towers are alive — breathing, creaking, groaning, sweating and crying when stressed. Airbags on the face of the towers expand and contract, while hundreds of tensile trunks are sporadically activated, casting water onto the heated facades producing steam..."TAGS
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Motion Comics SAVE
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"one of comics' greatest strengths is the idea of closure, or how readers fill in the gaps between panels. Motion comics do this for the viewer with extra sound effects and time. An unfortunate side effect of this is that while traditional comics enable us to read at our own speed, motion comics lock us into fixed durations." Which is why motion comics aren't comics, if you were wondering.TAGS
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New global map of Mars suggests Red Planet once had ocean SAVE
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"“All the evidence gathered by analyzing the valley network on the new map points to a particular climate scenario on early Mars,” said NIU Geography Professor Wei Luo. “It would have included rainfall and the existence of an ocean covering most of the northern hemisphere, or about one-third of the planet’s surface""TAGS
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I traced my dad... and discovered he is Charles Manson | The Sun |Features SAVE
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"He says: "I didn't want to believe it. I was frightened and angry. It's like finding out that Adolf Hitler is your father. I'm a peaceful person - trapped in the face of a monster.""TAGS