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This adorable robot octopus is powered by farts
Farting octopus robot has prepared me for our automated future<p>The latest addition to a growing menagerie of octopus-robots has a lot going for it: It’s small, completely squishy, it doesn’t need a battery — and it farts.<p>The adorable palm-sized robot is the work of a team of engineers from Harvard …
RoboticsHere's the most efficient route for a road trip through the lower 48 states
Squeezing the most fun possible into your vacation days is a challenge for anyone. If you’re a computer science researcher, however, it’s a challenge …
Road TripsThis Company Makes Fake Human Eyeballs an Art Form
The mother-and-son team behind Erickson Labs Northwest create incredibly lifelike replicas for patients who have lost an eye.<p><i>Editor's note: This tour of small businesses across the country highlights the imagination, diversity, and resilience of American enterprise.</i><p>Christie Erickson and Todd …
University of WashingtonInside Mick Jagger and Keith Richards’s Five-Decade Bromance
After covering the Rolling Stones in the 1990s, Rich Cohen worked with Mick Jagger on what became the HBO series Vinyl. In an adaptation from his book on the Stones, he shares a close-up of the band, and the friendship behind it.<p>Photos: Mick Jagger and Keith Richard’s Bromance<p>PreviousNext<p>In 1994, …
Mick JaggerSummer House in Dalarna / Leo Qvarsebo
<i>From the architect.</i> The requests in this project are obvious yet challenging: Cooking outdoors and indoors. A quiet reading area and a bedroom …
29 delightful retro gadgets that will make you nostalgic for old-school technology
Ever since Sebastian P. was a young kid, he's been obsessed with gadgets and electronics, especially those that made sounds.<p>"I used to have countless gadgets and toys that made blips and bleeps, and recorded them with a little Fisher Price toy cassette recorder," he tells Business Insider. "Later, …
Nine Inch NailsJefferson Airplane: 12 Essential Songs
The best of the psychedelic rock icons<p>"Don't you want somebody to love?" goes the chorus of Jefferson Airplane's best-known hit. Love was more than …
GuitarFormer NASA Engineer Explains the Fastest Way to De-Fog Your Windshield
Science proves you can blast away the fog twice as fast.<p>Winter's here, and for lots of us, that means dealing with a foggy windshield full of condensation when we go to start our cars. In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't take <i>that</i> long for your defroster to clear your windshield, but if you're …
William Gibson: how I wrote Neuromancer
Gibson ‘had so very little idea of how to write a novel’ when he was commissioned to come up with a manuscript<p>N<i>euromancer</i> was a commissioned work. I have no idea how many years it might have taken, otherwise, before I produced a novel on spec. Had you asked me at the time of commission, I would …
Popular FictionDrone School 1: Choosing a beginner quadcopter
Multicopters are one of the hottest consumer gadgets on the market, and for good reason. They're cheap, easy to fly, a ton of fun, and by far the …
The Most Ancient and Magnificent Trees From Around the World
The Bowthorpe Oak is a massively thick, millennium-old tree in Lincolnshire, England that once was rumored to hold three dozen people in its …
NatureThe VW Van Goes Off-Roading
Volkswagen vans have long brought folks together, whether to tour with the Grateful Dead or later to wrench on the relatively simple mechanics of …
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Death By Coconut: A Story Of Food Obsession Gone Too Far
The coconut has developed a bit of a faddish following in the West.<p>Today, devotees add coconut oil to coffee, dab it on acne and, following Gwyneth Paltrow's example, swirl it around in their mouths to fight tooth decay.Starbucks has launched a coconut-milk latte. And the coconut-water business has …
LiteratureJeff Decker: heavy metal – Flesh & Relics
Jeff Decker was born in Torrance, California in 1966 and grew up prowling the aisles of swap meets with his father searching out vintage speed …
Inside the Bizarre Genome of the World’s Toughest Animal
Tardigrades are sponges for foreign genes. Does that explain why they are famously indestructible?<p>The toughest animals in the world aren't bulky elephants, or cold-tolerant penguins, or even the famously durable cockroach. Instead, the champions of durability are endearing microscopic creatures …
BiologyBaker Miller Pink Hoodie. Engineered for relaxation and recovery.
The Baker Miller Pink Hoodie is a tailored fit so if you like your hoodies baggy, we recommend choosing a size up.<p>We shot the Baker Miller Pink …
Retro Science Fiction Scans from 1954, Underwater cities and massive monorails
This cover from Worlds of IF, January 1954 depicts a futuristic under ocean city. I absolutely love this cover.<p>Even the illustrations on the insides …
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