MIT Media Lab Hosts The Future
Fri, 27 Apr 2012 06:34:35 -0700
This week, MIT Media Lab researchers and minds from around the world got together to discuss artificial implantable memories, computers that understand emotion... and Microsoft-funded robotic teddy bears. Will the next Guitar Hero soon be discovered? Wandering the halls of the MIT Media Lab is the closest imaginable thing to a sneak peek of the future. The Media Lab, a think tank/experimental ...
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The 5th Annual World Science Festival: Premiere U.S. Science Event Announces 2012 Programming Line-Up
Mon, 14 May 2012 10:01:29 -0700
5 Days, 50 Events - May 30th to June 3rd, 2012 - Tickets On Sale NowNew York, NY (PRWEB) May 14, 2012 The 2012 World Science Festival (http://www.worldsciencefestival.com) today announced an impressive line-up of cutting-edge science programs for its fifth anniversary season, May 30th to June 3rd, 2012 with more than 50 events designed to make the esoteric understandable and the familiar ...
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Preparing for the big one
Fri, 04 May 2012 08:32:26 -0700
A recent survey of how people are most likely to die rated asteroid impacts pretty low—something like 1 in 100,000. That’s statistically about the same probability as death by lightning or a tsunami. But there’s an obvious flaw in this predictive comparison. Lightning kills one person at a time about sixty times per year. Asteroid impacts, by contrast, probably haven’t killed anyone in thousands ...
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