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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.

French-Canadian kids doing anthropology in the midst of our broken future, contending with the vague stirrings of paleotechnology. Video after the jump.

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.

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.

The head of the Philip K. Dick android, which went missing in 2006, has been rebuilt by Hanson Robotics. Who will help it come to grips with its strange and chequered past? Video after the jump.

Opera on the radio, Paul Feyerabend's scientific relativism, and Soviet mistrust of scientists and intellectuals: today's hits in the history of science and technology

Neue Films' video for the Queens-based baroque rockers catches life's uncanny, elemental evanescence. Video after the jump.

Iron girders, gay Paris, and the crackle of radio transmissions: today's hit in the history of science and technology.

Mastering the musical cactus requires not only a deft ear, but a good supply of bandages.

The trouble with the Rebel Alliance: no exit strategy. Video after the jump