Micro-Machines, Electronic Ink, Silk, Digital Film, Religion Lite & Vieques
Japanese scientists have developed tiny spinning screws, 8mm long and under 1mm diameter, that can swim along veins or burrow through flesh taking drugs to infected tissues. The swimming micro-machines are based on cylindrical magnets, and can screw through 2cm of beef steak in 20 seconds. It could also be used as a New Age silent assassination weapon.
Philips and E-Ink have demonstrated the first high-resolution electronic ink displays for use in handheld devices. They aim to have them on the market within two years.
Researchers are using spider genes to get potatoes and tobacco plants to produce large quantities of silk protein, which they hope to be able to weave into fibres and fabrics.
A travelling digital film festival run by a punk rocker continues to tour America, harkening to a time when freaks ruled the Internet and major media corporations refused to contemplate a future online.
Bigger is better in America — apparently even when it comes to god. Mega-churches, giant houses of worship that draw congregations of up to 20,000 to weekend services, are thriving, and super-sized houses of worship have become fixtures of America's religious landscape, in spite of criticism from some traditionalists that they are a sort of religion lite.
Velda González may be 68 years old, the vice president of the Senate in Puerto Rico and a grandmother several times over. But none of that mattered to US Navy officials who treated her like trash, which is the same way they've treated so many others who have been arrested for protesting the Navy's bombing exercises on the island of Vieques.
Philips and E-Ink have demonstrated the first high-resolution electronic ink displays for use in handheld devices. They aim to have them on the market within two years.
Researchers are using spider genes to get potatoes and tobacco plants to produce large quantities of silk protein, which they hope to be able to weave into fibres and fabrics.
A travelling digital film festival run by a punk rocker continues to tour America, harkening to a time when freaks ruled the Internet and major media corporations refused to contemplate a future online.
Bigger is better in America — apparently even when it comes to god. Mega-churches, giant houses of worship that draw congregations of up to 20,000 to weekend services, are thriving, and super-sized houses of worship have become fixtures of America's religious landscape, in spite of criticism from some traditionalists that they are a sort of religion lite.
Velda González may be 68 years old, the vice president of the Senate in Puerto Rico and a grandmother several times over. But none of that mattered to US Navy officials who treated her like trash, which is the same way they've treated so many others who have been arrested for protesting the Navy's bombing exercises on the island of Vieques.