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Planet Harddrive
[Image: “Conceptual diagram of satellite triangulation,” courtesy of the Office of NOAA Corps Operations (ONCO)]. I’ve long been fascinated by what I might call the geological nature of harddrives –...
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Village Design as Magnetic Storage Media
[Image: “Magnetic Field” by Berenice Abbott, from The Science Pictures (1958-1961)]. An interesting new paper suggests that the ritual practice of burning parts of villages to the ground in southern...
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Sounds in Transit
I’ve been delinquent in mentioning Jace Clayton’s new book, Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture. Longtime readers of this blog might recognize Clayton—aka DJ /rupture—from an...
View ArticleFractalize Me
The genes that cause Romanesco, a kind of cauliflower, to grow in a fractal pattern have been identified. Researchers were subsequently able to manipulate one of those genes and get it to function...
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