Category: Links
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A 3D Printed Moon Base: Science Fiction or Science Fact?
Jason Dunn, co-founder and CTO of Made In Space, responds to “The Man Who Sold the Moon” on Singularity Hub.
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Building a space elevator starts with a lunar elevator by 2020
Gizmag’s Eric Mack reports on Liftport, a Kickstarter-funded project to create an elevator connecting the Moon to the Earth.
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The Dystopian City and Urban Policy
In an article for Slate magazine’s Future Tense channel, Annalee Newitz argues that urban planners should read more science fiction.
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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.
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Inside Google’s Project Wing
The Atlantic‘s Alexis C. Madrigal explores Google X’s secret drone delivery program.
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Human-Animal Studies
Human-Animal Studies (HAS) is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field that examines the complex and multidimensional relationships between humans and other animals.