Category Archives: Nature Redeemed

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Clothes That Clean Themselves — Prachi Patel-Predd, Technology Review

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How Email Brings You Closer to the Guy in the Next Cubicle — Tim Harford, Wired Magazine

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The Afterlife of Cellphones — Jon Mooallem, New York Times Magazine

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Geek the Vote: Science & Tech Guide to the Election — Popular Mechanics

“Popular Mechanics compiled these links to make it easier to compare leading presidential candidates on several issues of interest to our readers, primarily in areas of science and technology. We did not analyze any of the proposals, and we do not necessarily endorse them.”

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Microwaved Tires Are Alternative Fuel
— Dan Shapley, The Daily Green

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Football field-sized kite powers latest heavy freight ship
— NetworkWorld.com

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Japan’s melody roads play music as you drive
— Bobbie Johnson, UK Guardian

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Suit Says Baby’s Seizure Violated Rights — Anna Jo Bratton, AP in UK Guardian

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Kuka: Robot Ascetic Inscribes Bible
— Joel Johnson, Boing Boing Gadgets

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For the first time in 10,000 years, farming is not the dominating industry — Peter S Magnusson

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Stretching crystals promises flexible colour displays
— Belle Dumé, NewScientist.com

See Also: Sony Bio Battery powers gadgets on grape juice and sports drinks — J. Mark Lytle, Digital World Tokyo So, maybe about ten years from now, you’ll see people on the commuter train pour Gatorade into a small box latched to their belt, plug a wire into it, unfold a piece of paper at [...]

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Midwife training saving lives in Afghanistan
— Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing

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Heretical Thoughts about Science and Society
— Freeman Dyson, The Edge

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New elements in HTML 5
— Elliotte Rusty Harold, IBM

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Law is code
Artur Bergman, Radar on O’Reilly

The comments are particularly good on this one. [And I'm not just saying that because I left a comment.]

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World first: Flying high on pond scum
— Denise McNabb, Independent Financial Review on Stuff.co.nz

“Air New Zealand and airliner manufacturer Boeing are secretly working with Blenheim-based biofuel developer Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation to create the world’s first environmentally friendly aviation fuel, made of wild algae…”

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Möbius Strip Riddle Solved
— kdawson, Slashdot

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You Can Play the Record, but Don’t Touch
— Nell Boyce, National Public Radio

“…But this turntable doesn’t spin like a normal record player. And there’s no needle hovering over the record. Instead, there’s a camera linked to a computer. It snaps detailed images of the groove cut into the disc, and uses the images to reconstruct the sound without ever touching the record…”

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Greatest Living American Ignored — Gregg Easterbrook, The Huffington Post

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Sigbritt, 75, has world’s fastest broadband
— The Local (Sweden)

“…Sigbritt will now be able to enjoy 1,500 high definition HDTV channels simultaneously. Or, if there is nothing worth watching there, she will be able to download a full high definition DVD in just two seconds. The secret behind Sigbritt’s ultra-fast connection is a new modulation technique which allows data to be transferred directly between [...]