another great pic from ~EvidencE~

seven steps

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Exciting news for those hoping that carbon nanotubes are part of our medical (and body-hacking) future:

Carbon nanotubes—cylinders so tiny that it takes 50,000 lying side by side to equal the width of a human hair—are packed with the potential to be highly accurate vehicles for administering medicines and other therapeutic agents to patients. But a dearth of data about what happens to the tubes after they discharge their medical payloads has been a major stumbling block to progress.

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Carbon Nanotubes found safe in Mice

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This is the work of the decapitator. This anonymous artist has been de-facing London advertistements and uploading the results for all to see. With the latest work the documentation has been taken one step further, the entire process being filmed and uploaded it to YouTube:

I’m sure this won’t be the last act of this new artist. I look forward to seeing what comes next.

the decapitator

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At the market in the La Saline slum, two cups of rice now sell for 60 cents, up 10 cents from December and 50 percent from a year ago. Beans, condensed milk and fruit have gone up at a similar rate, and even the price of the edible clay has risen over the past year by almost $1.50. Dirt to make 100 cookies now costs $5, the cookie makers say.

Still, at about 5 cents apiece, the cookies are a bargain compared to food staples. About 80 percent of people in Haiti live on less than $2 a…

poor Haitians eating mud cookies

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