Tag: science-fiction

An incredible new polymer that heals itself to 97% efficiency

The Spanish scientists who developed it are calling it the ‘Terminator’ Polymer — and for good reason. Like the T-1000 blown to bits, it can spontaneously and independently repair itself without any outside intervention. Read more…        

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An incredible new polymer that heals itself to 97% efficiency

Transparent skull implant is the next step in body mods (and medicine)

Researchers have been kicking around the idea of a cranial porthole for years – a skylight for your skull that doctors could peer through to monitor brain cancer, or treat neurological disorders. But glass is too fragile, and traditional skull implants are opaque. Now, a team of bioengineers has developed an implant using a strong, transparent material that could make brain-windows a reality. Read more…        

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Transparent skull implant is the next step in body mods (and medicine)

New, Canon-Faithful Star Trek Series Is In Pre-Production

An anonymous reader writes “Star Trek veterans such as Walter Koenig (Pavel Chekov), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Robert Picardo (the Doctor) and others are busy in pre-production of a professionally produced pilot episode for a suggested new online Star Trek series named Star Trek: Renegades, which will be faithful to the original Star Trek canon. The events of the series are placed a decade after Voyager’s return from Delta Quadrant. When the pilot is complete, they’ll present it to CBS in the hopes that it’ll be picked up. They have also opened an Indiegogo campaign, seeking more funds from Star Trek fans to help make the production even more professional. They’ve already reached their primary funding goal.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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New high-res maps of Earth’s surprisingly inconsistent gravity field

Though it seems hard to believe, Earth’s gravitational pull is not the same everywhere you go. And as these gorgeously detailed maps now show, these variances are much greater than we thought. Read more…        

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Get your 1980s retro Dungeons & Dragons fix with this crazy short film

This Must Be the Only Fantasy is a Dungeons & Dragons style collaboration between fashion line Rodarte and photographer Todd Cole. The short movie is packed with amazing unicorns, badass ear cuffs, Elijah Wood drop ins, and self important pauses. But it does 100% feel like the 80s. Read more…        

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WinCo: worker-owned grocery chain that pays benefits, pensions, living wages — and has lower prices than WalMart

WinCo is a midwestern chain of worker-owned stores that consistently underprice WalMart, while still paying a living wage to their staff and decent prices to their suppliers.        

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WinCo: worker-owned grocery chain that pays benefits, pensions, living wages — and has lower prices than WalMart

NSA firing 90% of its sysadmins to eliminate potential Snowdens

The NSA is to cut 90% of its 1, 000 sysadmins in a bid to reduce the risk of leaks. NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was a network administrator, charged with keeping the machines running on the network of vast data-centers used by the NSA to harvest, store and analyze unimaginably large quantities of data.        

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NSA firing 90% of its sysadmins to eliminate potential Snowdens