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In the first few panels of Drew Endy’s “Adventures in Synthetic Biology” comics you see a young student with laboratory goggles grabbing Buddy-the-Lifeform.

IBM’s Dharmendra Modha has a vision. “Cognitive computing seeks to engineer the mind by reverse engineering the brain,” says Modha, a researcher at IBM’s Almaden Research Center, just south of San Francisco.

An article we ran on November 17, titled Eight Ways In-Vitro Meat will Change Our Lives has probably inspired more discussion than any other article we have run.

Mini-Me would sooner kick Mike Tyson in the shin than I would challenge Cory Doctorow to an intellectual bitchslapfest.

What would be a good visual image for the 21st century? One candidate might be what Damien Broderick called “the spike”; a chart that shows exponential growth over time.

Time, said Freud, is a construct of waking life.

Mathematician and SF writer Vernor Vinge has a thing for contact lenses.

In 1992, seminal nanotechnology pioneer Dr. K. Eric Drexler introduced the term "molecular manufacturing," which he defined as the "chemical synthesis of complex structures by mechanically positioning reactive molecules, not by manipulating individual atoms.”

It’s the long-awaited sequel to the iconic 80s cyber-funk film phenomenon that ‘cheated’ (because it used computers); yes, it’s darker and more badass; yes, it’s got Jeff ‘The Dude’ Bridges (at two different ages, no less — a neat trick, if you can do it); and no, it doesn’t give a neon-blue damn about your Internet.