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Warren Ellis » Conan! What Is Best In Life?

Hugo Gernsback, who started the first science-fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, back in 1926, and without whom we wouldn’t be here today, was interviewed in the July 26, 1963, issue of LIFE magazine—where he modeled his “teleyeglasses” pocket-size portable TV set. He says he came up with the idea in 1936, but didn’t think the world was ready to embrace them until the ‘60s.

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Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As ‘Fun, Watchable’

they forgot the bit about the Romulans wearing cool clothes you actually want

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The Cloud is coming to London for the 2012 Olympics

From the BBC:

A giant “digital cloud” that would “float” above London’s skyline has been outlined by an international team of architects, artists and engineers.

The construction would…

Julian Savulescu says “Genetically enhance humanity or face extinction”

In this provocatively titled lecture, from the very aptly named Festival of Dangerous Ideas , Julian Savulescu, Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford and Head of the…

Julian Savulescu says “Genetically enhance humanity or face extinction”