September 2011
20 posts
'Autistic' mice created – and treated - health -... →
A new strain of mice engineered to lack a gene with links to autism displays many of the hallmarks of the condition. It also responds to a drug in the same way as people with autism, which might open the way to new therapies for such people.
http://stelarc.org/_.swf →
BBC News - Women in Saudi Arabia to vote and run... →
Women in Saudi Arabia are to be given the right to vote and run in future municipal elections, King Abdullah has announced.
Wordseye Is An Artistic Software Designed To... →
While their fellow friends from Columbia University were reading science-fiction books about intergalactic battles on distant planets, Bob Coyne and Richard Sproat were developing the uncanny Wordseye project. The motto of this software is terribly simple: the user must describe a scene or situation in a short text, and the computer program then uses this verbal input to generate a visual...
From Your Heart to Your iPhone →
A smart-phone app under development for heart-failure patients allows them to keep track of the pressure inside their heart as measured by an implanted sensor. That data could help patients adjust their medication to maintain a healthy pressure, much as diabetics do with insulin and blood sugar readings.
new-aesthetic:
Global geocoded tone of all New York Times content (1945–2005), from Culturomics 2.0: Forecasting large-scale human behaviour using global news media tone in time and space.
Are jobs obsolete? - CNN.com →
The U.S. Postal Service appears to be the latest casualty in digital technology’s slow but steady replacement of working humans. Unless an external source of funding comes in, the post office will have to scale back its operations drastically, or simply shut down altogether. That’s 600,000 people who would be out of work, and another 480,000 pensioners facing an adjustment in terms.
WatchAudio Reactive in VDMX - Test #1 (by Leaf-tierney)
WatchElectric Sheep - 2min Version (by Karmalize Productions)
Telehack →
Watchnucleus (by lukasz)
