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ZURI 01 Paperbot System | ZOOBOTICS
ZURI 01 Paperbot System | ZOOBOTICS Description: ZURI is a programmable robot made from paper and grey cardboard. This motion machine, conceived of as a kit, can be assembled with a few tools (cutter, ruler, cutting mat, bone folder, glue and screwdriver). In addition to a distance sensor, the Paper Robot has servo motors, servo…
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Crux, a sequel to Nexus – bioethical technothriller
mostlysignssomeportents: I loved Nexus, Ramez Naam’s 2012 debut novel about biohackers who produce a nano-based party drug that installs a networked computer inside your brain, and quickly turns into a war-on-drugs bioethics thriller about the free/open transhumanists and mirthless, ruthless drug enforcement agents. In Crux, the sequel that comes out today, Naam rips through 550+…
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Rosie Revere, Engineer: picture book about intergenerational makers
mostlysignssomeportents: Rosie Revere, Engineer is an absolutely wonderful kids’ picture book about a young girl who loves to invent, but finds herself crushed by the laughter of adults — until her great aunt Rose explains the relationship of failure, invention and perseverance. Written in delightful verse and filled with sneaky histories of women in aviation,…
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I know exactly where I was: sitting on a tattered couch in the living room of my rental house in Austin, Texas, 1989. The ninth issue of the experimental comics magazine RAW, edited by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly, had been released, and I’d bought it at a local comics shop and brought it home…
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Nalo Hopkinson’s Report from Midnight
mostlysignssomeportents: PM Press’s Outspoken Authors series is a wonderful line of chapbooks introducing the work of radical science fiction authors; each book is a short mix of essays, interviews and novellas and short-stories (they honored me by producing The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow, based on my work). The newest volume is Report from Midnight, by…