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Bookmark You're (Maybe) Gonna Need a Patent for That Woolly Mammoth | WIRED
The mouse didn't look like much. It had the same red beady eyes and white fur as any other laboratory mouse. Sure, its DNA had been tweaked to make it ideal…

February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments
Bookmark Geoengineering Is the Only Solution to Our Climate Calamities | WIRED
Parag Khanna is the author of Connectography (2016) and The Future is Asian (2019). Michael Ferrari is managing partner at Atlas Research Innovations and a senior fellow at the Wharton School.

October 9 2020, 12:13am | Comments
Bookmark Is DNA Hardware or Software? - Grow by Ginkgo
In mid-January, a group of computer scientists and biologists from the University of Vermont, Tufts, and Harvard announced that they had created an entirely new life form — xenobots, the world’s…

June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments
Bookmark As Sea Levels Rise, Scientists Offer a Bold Idea: Dam the North…
A proposal to build two huge barriers — one that would connect Norway to Scotland, the other France to England — was described as a warning about the urgency of the…

February 18 2020, 6:26pm | Comments
Bookmark Engineered for Dystopia | David A. Banks
Some of the first people to be called “engineers” operated siege engines. A siege engine is a very old device used to tear down the walls of an enemy city.

January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments
Bookmark On Speculative Design | Benjamin H. Bratton «DIS Magazine
Benjamin Bratton on Speculative Design, an alternative to mainstream Design that complicates the speculative models that underscore our global economy.

June 15 2016, 5:00pm | Comments
Bookmark The Hidden Burden of Exoskeletons for the Disabled - The Atlantic
Last year, a man in an exoskeleton kicked off the Men’s World Cup. Juliano Pinto, a 29-year-old from Brazil, was outfitted by a team of scientists from the Walk Again Project…

April 17 2016, 6:03am | Comments
Bookmark Research crowns termites the top engineers of the natural world - Institution…
Scientists have already shown that termites build their mounds in a unique way involving "bio-cementation", a process where grains of soil are fused together into small balls with moisture, saliva and…

April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments
Bookmark Sloppy MicroChips: Oh, that’s near enough
Letting microchips make a few mistakes here and there could make them much faster and more energy-efficient. Managing the probability of errors and limiting where they occur can ensure that the…

June 5 2012, 9:18am | Comments
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October 30 2009, 4:45am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Offsetting sea level rise: An engineering idea of Biblical proportions | Ask Metafilter The seas are rising. Climate change has made it inevitable. I have a strange question... Assuming that world sea-level rises by 1 metre over the next hundred years - Would it be possible to cordon off a section of land, somewhere in the…

September 18 2009, 8:12am | Comments

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