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In the Basement of the Ivory Tower
The idea that a university education is for everyone is something that we all want to believe. An unnamed instructor at a "college of last resort" describes it as a destructive ...
Welcome New Scientist, Telegraph, Digg et al.
One of our research projects (Human tended gardens of evolutionary design) was covered recently (and quite nicely) by New Scientist. The Daily Telegraph also picked up the story, ...
When Penguins Fly
Today is April Fools, and while it might be smart to avoid reading anything on the internet today - we still do. The best prank out today is without a doubt the ...
Concerning the Allegory of the Trolley Problem Paradox
It is rare that you get to see such a huge list of complex philosophical problems reduced to a six page comic, but Saint Gasoline has somehow accomplished it in his ...
Fishing for Students at Splash
I'll be teaching a class at splash in November for my favorite demographic - high school students. If you aren't familiar with splash: One weekend in November, over one thousand high school ...
Genetically Designing DIVs
Note: This is a rather rough draft of this idea. Comments are welcome. Ah, the genetic algorithm. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this idea the intuition is relatively simple. Have ...
Thoughts on News: Intertextualizing out of the Prolefeed
I've spent a bit of time thinking about news lately. Youtube has an interesting feature. When you're watching a video on youtube it shows you a short selection of related ...
light-bombs
no matter what anyone may think LEDs do not make something a bomb and bombs usually don’t have little lights on them anyways
cuddlebot
i shot this video of dan stiehl presenting his ‘huggable’ robotic companion teddy bear at the aarp conference in boston two weeks ago. this project is another attempt at making companion robots ...
collaborative creation
i found peter b. meyer’s episodes of collective invention inspiring because he shows that in cases where technology has no clear application, sharing ideas is more valuable than keeping them secret. ...
shared limbs
although few attempts at ‘open design‘ have endured, openprosthetics.org seems to be working. it is a forum for sharing prosthetic designs, and it is motivated in large part by amputees and ...
by a long sea and a long land carriage
the supply chain of a laptop computer Were we to examine, in the same manner, all the different parts of his dress and household furniture, the coarse linen shirt which he wears ...
skinnybot
i saw cory kidd’s new version of ‘autom’ the robotic weight loss coach at the AARP conference in Boston last week. he is starting the first sociable robot company, intuitiveautomata based ...
shake a wrist
master cyber-seamtress leah buechley showed her ‘bracelets‘ at the siggraph 2007 unravel fashion show. amazingly she can make circuits completely soft, such as this supple LED-studded bracelet with an accelerometer ...
polypopolis
i was at the AARP conference in boston last week - i’m not sure why - and i came across this radical experiment in inflatable architecture: the super colon. ...