Month: September 2014
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Hieroglyph Sweepstakes!
Tor.com
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Location, Location, Location
But we need penguins. Nobody would want to go to Antarctica and not see penguins!
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An Idea Is Born
The big idea: a hotel in Antarctica. Why not?
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Ice as a Building Material
Have you considered using ice as not the only, but as one of your hotel’s building materials?
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Through the Valley of Death
Getting through the valley of death is the hard part. Yes, we do need bold ideas– but how do we turn them into iron realities?
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Mathematics of Gamification
Foursquare Data Scientist Michael Li talks probabilities, integers and Bayesian Smoothing.
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Remote Stereolunagraphy
Neal Stephenson and Cory Doctorow discuss the possibilities for moon dust.
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Centrifugal Method for Particle Size Segregation
A student research project about a method for sorting lunar regolith by size, produced at the University of Washington as part of NASA’s Microgravity University program and overseen by James J. Riley, professor of mechanical engineering.
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Carbon Capture
Jean M. Andino, one of the co-authors of this article, consulted with Charlie Jane Anders on “The Day It All Ended.” Andino is a Senior Sustainability Scholar at Arizona State University’s Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, and an Associate Professor at the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy.
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Excerpt on iO9
Read an excerpt of “By the Time We Get To Arizona” by Madeline Ashby.