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There is one incredible concept: We could place the asteroid in an orbit between the Earth and Mars to allow astronauts who want to get there to hop on and off it like a bus. Think about that. You could make a spacecraft out of the asteroid. (via Asteroid mining by Planetary Resources: Google billionaires are backing an outlandish venture. – Slate Magazine)

(via Wombs with a view: Revolutionary four-dimensional imaging reveals spectacular photos of mammal embryos that already look just like mum | Mail Online)

teratocybernetics:

subliming:

reactivating:

The solar eclipse from space

I think I may remember this being shopped. Still gorgeous.

idlnmclean:

“When I was young there were beatniks. Hippies. Punks. Gangsters. Now you’re a hacktivist. Which I would probably be if I was 20. Shuttin’ down MasterCard. But there’s no look to that lifestyle! Besides just wearing a bad outfit with bad posture. Has WikiLeaks caused a look? No! I’m mad about that. If your kid comes out of the bedroom and says he just shut down the government, it seems to me he should at least have an outfit for that.”

– John Waters on the sorry style of today’s rebels (emphasis mine)

No outfit, no uniform, no paradox of conformist non-conformity. Anonymous has become the label of collections of people networked in a dangerously indifferent world. We are not white, black, brown, male, female, man, woman, adult, or child. Those are not our distinguishing and defining traits. You can not see us on a CCTV camera. You can not pick us out of a crowd. You can not judge us by our appearance but only by the character of our words and the effect of our actions.

smarterplanet:

‘Smart fingertips’ could allow for virtual surgery | KurzweilAI

Semiconductor devices capable of responding with high precision to touch and finger movement are a step towards creating surgical gloves for use in medical procedures such as local ablations and ultrasound scans.

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Northwestern University and Dalian University of Technology used ultrathin, stretchable, silicon-based electronics and soft sensors mounted onto an artificial “skin” and fitted to fingertips.

The team hopes to incorporate the devices into a smart glove with the flexibility of skin that creates virtual sensations of everything from texture to temperature.

“Imagine the ability to sense the electrical properties of tissue, and then remove that tissue, precisely by local ablation, all via the fingertips using smart surgical gloves,” said co-author of the study Professor John Rogers.