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Where would Italian cuisine be without olive oil? Well, now there’s some talk of releasing "programmed" fat globules similar to olive oil into the water. Why? To form limestone reefs and save Venice, of course.

You thought your Bluetooth headset gave you that certain je ne sais quoi cyberlook — perhaps like Captain Jean-Luc Picard of Star Trek: The Next Generation after assimilation by the Borg.

Ooh don’t touch me there…

KurzweilAI reports on how "artificial skin will use quantum tunneling… QTC robot skin could let a robot know precisely where it has been touched, and with how much pressure."

h+ contributor and longtime pal o’ mine Ian Monroe has created a book and — "At long last! Science and Religion Finally Reconciled!

With the media emphasizing reports on the Obama Administrations decision not to return astronauts to the moon, low attention types might assume that they are hostile to space exploration. An opinion piece in today’s SF Chronicle presents a different view.

Korea?! Are you scoffing? Readers, when you spied my headline did you think, “Mr. Hyena’s insane! Korea’s not a superpower; it’s a dwarf peninsula shuddering in China and Japan’s shadow! Korea’s a bisected baby-tiger south / starving-hermit north mess! Korea? Superpower?! Absurd!”

Recognizr, a prototype smartphone app from the Swedish firms The Astonishing Tribe (TAT) and Polar Rose, brings augmented identity to the social networking world — if you’ve got an Android phone with a five-megapixel camera, and a willing subject.

Color blindness affects some eight percent of males, and the most common form is the inability to distinguish between red and green.

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Do smart drugs give students an unfair advantage? Is that coffee in your piss or are you just glad to see me?