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Robert Lang is a pioneer of modern origami — using math and engineering principles to fold mind-blowingly intricate designs that are b...
TED.com commenter David Smith points us to this new interview with Ashraf Ghani, available as a podcast from the BBC World Service. Ghani (w...
Via the TED Prize blog, over on TEDPrize.org: If you’d like to lead an incredible drive to build math and science academies all over A...
Stanford researcher Kwabena Boahen is looking for ways to mimic the brain’s supercomputing powers in silicon — because the messy...
Each year I donate a percentage of my income to Lightsaber Research and I encourage all my peers to do the same. A similarly futuristic tech...
Via Gizmodo: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has a preview of Microsoft’s prototype spherical multi-touch screen, Surface Sphere. It...
At the 2007 EG conference, Kevin Kelly shares a fun stat: The World Wide Web, as we know it, is only 5,000 days old. Now, he asks, how can w...
Reed Kroloff gives us a new lens for judging new architecture: is it technocratic, or is it romantic? Look for glorious images from two lead...
The New York Times has a thoughtful piece today on Model T hacking — which kicked off the modern sport of customizing, bending, moddin...