November 10, 2008
Jaron Lanier, with the collaboration of David Sulzer and Lisa Haney came up with this intriguing and highly feasible idea for a Manhattan time capsule … although you could do this anywhere. Some of the cockroach’s genes are extremely stable. They have not changed substantially for millions of years, and are therefore extremely likely to [...]
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November 4, 2008
This is really cool! “We can make pretty much any 2-D pattern by this technique,” Hart said. But in honor of the election, Hart’s lab applied their technique to the now-ubiquitous image of Obama’s face created by Shepherd Ferry. The only overtly political text that accompanies the images on nanobama.com is the tagline, “vote for science.” Nanobama: World’s [...]
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