Yet Another Integrator

Original at the Arts, Media and Engineering Blog, and very kindly brought to my attention by Becky Stern of Sternlabs and of the Arts, Media and Engineering program at Arizona State University. The video shows Leah Buechley, a postdoctoral researcher in the Craft Technology Group at U.C. Boulder, who presented her lecture on "Computational Textiles as Handcrafted Personal Computers" on

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Join us in the Extropia Book Club suite in The Nexus in Extropia Core for a discussion of John Varley's homage to classic SF in this tale of plucky young backyard rocket builders rac... [Extropia Core]

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Arthur C. Clarke's obituary appeared on the BBC's web site today. He lived ninety years, and his work predicted communication satellites and space elevators. He lived to see the former, but not the latter. This puts him ahead of other visionaries, such as Gerard O'Neill, who did not live to see their predictions realized. This news doesn't surprise me. It does leave me sad. The view from the top

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Misuse of certain words disproportionately annoys me. In particular, "impact" does not mean "affect." For hell's sake! "impact" names an English noun, not a verb. I just read a sentence with this error. I almost instantly thought, "I need a proxy server to rewrite web pages with this mistake." I immediately decided against that, and not because of laziness. Filters in general destroy information.

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Don't just take my word for it. Read James Oberg's piece over at The Space Review.