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Interview: Ursula K. Le Guin
Interview: Ursula K. Le Guin Photograph by Benjamin Reed.Ursula K. Le Guin is a internationally-recognized, award-winning science fiction writer, an elegant badass and the author of such classics as...
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Scientific Icons
Scientific IconsA couple of years ago, I was poking around in a European art museum and came across an exhibit of exquisitely beautiful Eastern Orthodox religious paintings, "icons." Beyond being...
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Information Overload!!!
Information Overload!!!I don't have the attention span to write this article. In the course of penning this introductory paragraph, I've taken umpteen email breaks, gotten distracted by several...
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Ideological State Interface
Ideological State InterfaceThe North Korean government has made an operating system called "Red Star."Despite the fact that very few North Koreans have a computer, let alone Internet access, Red Star...
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Synthetic Life Lives
Synthetic Life LivesWhat do these three quotations have in common? Hint: it lives in a petri dish."To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, and to recreate life out of life." -- James Joyce"What I cannot...
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Peripheral Vision
Peripheral VisionI believe the world is a complex phenomenological experience that can be explained, rationalized, and lived in myriad different ways. The way I see it, we all begin with the same...
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SETI, Really?
SETI, Really? As you may have heard, SETI is in trouble. Funding cutbacks on a state and federal level have forced the Allen Telescope Array -- SETI's new homebase, actually just a part of the U.C....
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We're OK TO GO!As you have undoubtedly heard from sources more overtly journalistic than this one, SETI is back online!After federal and state financial cutbacks forced the institute's shiny new Allen...
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The Book of Exogenesis
The Book of ExogenesisThe Book of Exogenesis: In the beginning was the word, and the word was a meteorite...Earlier this month, a report, based on NASA studies of meteorites found on Earth, suggested...
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Beautiful Evidence: Science CinemaTo scientists, "experimental" is a technical word, one with a precise meaning: that which relates to a procedure of methodical trial and error, to a systematic test...
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