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Medical Dispatch July 14, 2014 Until recently, Bertrand Might was the only known patient with a certain genetic disorder. His parents began searching for others.Photograph by Phillip Toledano Matt Might and Cristina Casanova met in the spring of 2002, as twenty-year-old undergraduates at the Georgia…

Guest blogger Trish Greenhalgh suggests its time for less research and more thinking. The most over-used and under-analyzed statement in the academic vocabulary is surely “more research is needed”. These four words, occasionally justified when they appear as the last sentence in a Masters…

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Hugh Herr is building the next generation of bionic limbs, robotic prosthetics inspired by nature's own designs. Herr lost both legs in a climbing accident 30 years ago; now, as the head of the MIT Media Lab's Biomechatronics group, he shows his incredible technology in a talk that's both technical…

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A scrapbook Paul Ford 5 min read· Jun 30, 2014 -- After the Battery Park Seawall Extension was completed, Jordaine Sells found herself without a job. Then a friend told her about a new company in Long Island that specializes in wine cellar reinforcement and flood-proofing. Intrigued, she applied—and…

Earlier this year I worked with cycling club Audax Australia to capture a tilt-shift time-lapse of their event the Alpine Classic. Starting in the town of Bright 2,200 cyclists tackled several different courses of up to 250km which included ascents of Mount Buffalo, Mount Hotham, Falls Creek and…

I bet you guys I can name every film used in this video...because I made it. It's not that impressive of an achievement actually. So, here are the films used in this table flipping montage: 00:05 - Angel's In The Outfield (1994) 00:12 - A Clockwork Orange (1971) 00:13 - Bill & Ted's Excellent…

A bogus SoundCloud takedown reveals a much larger issue with private sites and the public domain. Parker Higgins 5 min read· Jun 24, 2014 -- I received a bogus copyright takedown notice for using public domain audio on SoundCloud yesterday. The sound in question—the famous “Houston, we have a…

The Enduring Mystery of the Somerton Man, One of Australia’s Most Puzzling Cold Cases The discovery of a body on Somerton Beach in 1948 sparked theories that the dead man, now believed to be Carl Webb, was a Soviet spy, a ballet dancer or a jilted lover Mike Dash; Updated by Meilan Solly Updated:…

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Needle drugs seldom make a city look pretty, but some cities are more disfigured by them than others. In 2006, when I first visited Tbilisi, Georgia, it had all the wrecked majesty of an ex-beauty queen with six years of track-marks down her arms. It was a great European capital in decay: crumbling…

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Japanese cheerleaders asking you to take your garbage with you. Yurtec Stadium Sendai, Home of the Vegalta Sendai J-League professional soccer team. I will begin this post about Japanese garbage, trash, and litter with a soccer story. It was the 1998 World Cup in France. The Japanese national soccer…

For us to live, parts of us must die. Every day, billions of our cells shrink, break up into small parcels, and get tidied away by other janitorial cells. This gentle, organised cellular suicide is called apoptosis, and we depend upon it. Our hands start off as solid lumps; it’s apoptosis that…

What It’s Like to Fail Priceonomics Editor’s note: The following is the personal story of David Raether, a former comedy writer for the sitcom Roseanne who later became homeless. It is adapted from his memoir, “Tell Me Something, She Said.” On Christmas Day, 2001, I sat down at my Yamaha G2 grand…

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The author and his wife on vacation one month before her passing. The photo was taken by their son.Photo: Courtesy of Peter Bach The streetlights in Buenos Aires are considerably dimmer than they are in New York, one of the many things I learned during my family’s six-month stay in Argentina. The…

Future versions of the open-source Firefox browser will include closed-source digital rights management (DRM) from Adobe, the Mozilla project’s chief technology officer, Andreas Gal, announced on Wednesday. The purpose is to support commercial video streams. But this is a radical, disheartening…

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“¿Huayhuash?¿¡Huayhuash con bici’s!? No. No noooo… Es imposible.” In the winter of 2014, three friends set out on a self supported ride, looking for nothing more than a truly genuine experience. The goal: to circumnavigate one of the most wonderful and wicked mountain ranges in the world – the…

The 12 basic principles of animation were developed by the 'old men' of Walt Disney Studios, amongst them Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, during the 1930s. Of course they weren't old men at the time, but young men who were at the forefront of exciting discoveries that were contributing to the…

This is a story that’s in equal parts sad, strange and beautiful. A couple of years ago I got invited to a showing of a film about music in Japan called KanZeOn; I think it was FACT’s Laurent Fintoni, a long time lover of Japanese music and culture, who put me on to it originally. It turned out to…

It's 2150 There are all sorts of Aliens living throughout space. Johnny is a Space Delivery Man who travels to different planets to deliver packages. Johnny is lazy and his only desire is to sleep in his autopilot spaceship. when the spaceship arrives at the destination, all he has to do is simply…

The Old Testament is full of examples of chiasmus, which is a figure of speech used in ancient times to emphasize balance. It lists a bunch of ideas or things and then repeats each of them in reverse order. It’s often not an identical repetition. It frequently uses the opposite of what came before…

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We climb eight flights of stairs. Eight more remain. This is sturdy Soviet concrete, dusty as death, but solid. So I hope, anyway. My guide, Katya, who is in her early 20s, has informed me that the administrators of the Exclusion Zone that encompasses Chernobyl do not want tourists entering the…