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A 3D Printed Moon Base: Science Fiction or Science Fact?

December 22, 2014 in Links

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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Joey Eschrich is the editor and program manager at the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University. He earned his bachelor's degree in Film and Media Studies in 2008 and his master's degree in Gender Studies in 2011, both from ASU.

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Building a space elevator starts with a lunar elevator by 2020

December 10, 2014 in Links

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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Joey Eschrich

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The Dystopian City and Urban Policy

September 24, 2014 in Links

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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Annalee Newitz

Annalee Newitz writes about science, pop culture, and the future. She is the editor in chief of io9, a publication that covers science and science fiction. She is the author of the books Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction (2013) and Pretend We’re Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture (2006) and the coeditor of She’s Such a Geek (2006). Formerly, she was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, where she received a Ph.D. in English and American Studies.

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Mathematics of Gamification

September 9, 2014 in Links

Foursquare Data Scientist Michael Li talks probabilities, integers and Bayesian Smoothing.

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Hieroglyph Administrator

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Remote Stereolunagraphy

September 9, 2014 in Links

Neal Stephenson and Cory Doctorow discuss the possibilities for moon dust.

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Hieroglyph Administrator

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Centrifugal Method for Particle Size Segregation

September 9, 2014 in Links

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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Nina Miller

Nina Miller has been a designer at Arizona State University since 2005. Nina has taught foundation level courses in the ASU Visual Communications program and she has been an actor and performer in Phoenix since 1995. Her research in Interaction Design focuses on theatrical improvisation and how it might inspire the collaborative design process. Nina is a board member, instructor and improvisor at The Torch Theatre, a non-profit improv collective in central Phoenix.

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Carbon Capture

September 9, 2014 in Links

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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Hieroglyph Administrator

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Excerpt on iO9

September 9, 2014 in Links

Read an excerpt of “By the Time We Get To Arizona” by Madeline Ashby.

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Hieroglyph Administrator

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Inside Google’s Project Wing

September 8, 2014 in Links

The Atlantic‘s Alexis C. Madrigal explores Google X’s secret drone delivery program.

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Joey Eschrich

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Human-Animal Studies

September 5, 2014 in Links

Human-Animal Studies (HAS) is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field that examines the complex and multidimensional relationships between humans and other animals.

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Lauren Pedersen

Lauren Pedersen was born and raised in Tempe, Arizona to a writer and a helicopter pilot. She is currently pursuing her two passions of art and design at Arizona State University, where she continues to work towards a bachelor's degree in Design Studies with a focus in Design History, and a minor in Art History.

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