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Transborder Immigrant Tool helps Mexicans cross over safely
Vice has an interview with b.a.n.g lab's Ricardo Dominguez about the Transborder Immigrant Tool, a GPS device based on a cheap cell phone that will help Mexican immigrants safely cross the border." For the past few years you've been working on the Transborder Immigrant Tool, which sounds like i... More.
Submit your toddler's science questions!
When I was guesting on BoingBoing last spring, my friends' son Will wanted to know whether cockroaches had a penis. I enjoyed tracking down the surprisingly complicated answer, so I thought I'd keep the theme going now that I'm on full-time. I'm hoping to answer a Science Question from a Toddler onc... More.
I am unicorn, destroyer of ponies
Image link. Devin McGrath. (via galadarling via Susannah Breslin) ... More.
Internet ghost-towns: the blocked IPs where the bad guys used to live
When a block of IP addresses or a collection of domain names becomes associated with bad action -- spamming, jabbering, denial-of-servicing -- various ad-hoc Internet groups will add it to a blacklist of "rogue IPs" or "badware domains" that are blocked at a very low level in the network. The prob... More.
Science of fiction
I've just sat in on a presentation at the Canadian Reading Summit by one of the editors of OnFiction, an online scientific journal devoted to understanding the psychology of fiction reading. It was an incredibly exciting look into the neurology of fiction as an "embodied simulation." The journal lo... More.
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I admit that I was initially skeptical, but a few of the apps in this free pack are actually really good. I'm a relatively new Mac user, but ShoveBox and WriteRoom seem pretty genius in the realm of free apps.