A giant aircraft, a wandering writer's enigmatic death, and a cyborg with can-do spirit�today's hits in the history of science and technology.
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The Plaid Nebula
In astronomical imagery, false colors abound: ultraviolet, infrared, x-ray�and now, green and red checks.
Read More »Wikileaks and the End of Stolen Kisses
Slavoj �i�ek says that Wikileaks is hated not because of the secrets it has revealed, but because it exposed the cynicism of a system that has long stopped believing in the values it imagines itself to uphold. It's a problem not only for diplomacy and governance, but for the eroding distinction between public and private life.
Read More »Gearfuse Almanac: January 17 in Science and Technology
Visits to the Antarctic and the farthest reaches of the solar system: today's hits in science and technology.
Read More »Everlastingly Strange
G. K. Chesterton: "The simplest truth about man is that he is a very strange being; almost in the sense of being a stranger on the earth."
Read More »Unevenly Distributed: What Gremlins Says About The 80s And Its Tech
Even before the viewer catches a glimpse his first Mogwai, Joe Dante's Gremlins establishes the link between the titular goblins and malfunctioning technology by way of Randy Peltzer and his many incompetent inventions. It's a film very much of its time, with many fascinating things to say about the way Reagan-era Americans looked at technology. It's also a movie that would be impossible to remake today, for one big reason: the smartphone is our Bathroom Buddy.
Read More »Planned Telescope Evokes Futures Past
The planned Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope, which will sit high above Chile's Atacama Desert, bears an uncanny resemblance to the set of a certain classic scifi spoof. Video after the jump.
Read More »Anthropologues de l’avenir
French-Canadian kids doing anthropology in the midst of our broken future, contending with the vague stirrings of paleotechnology. Video after the jump.
Read More »Gearfuse Almanac: January 14 in Science and Technology
A sturdy air weapon of the Cold War, a not-so-sturdy rock legend's satellite star turn, and a landing in the outer solar system�today's hits in science and technology.
Read More »Hit Points: Second Life and Ambient Gaming
Julian Dibbell says that while Second Life seems to have failed to live up to its early promise, it has helped further the baked in gamification of life online and off.
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