What worries him most is that we humans haven’t yet evolved to be as wary of algorithms as we are of used car salesmen.
— Algorithms: The Ever-Growing, All-Knowing Way Of The Future | NPR (via courtenaybird)
What am Eye looking at?
View Larger Researchers Using Bio-Engineered Viruses to Power Nano Electronics
The researchers looked to viruses as a new material to work with because they reproduce rapidly and align far better than other materials, making them good candidates to accumulate a charge on one end of the virus.
The researchers then genetically engineered the virus with proteins that enhance the buildup of charge on the ends of the rod-shaped viruses. The viruses only attack other bacteria so are considered benign. The viruses are stacked onto thin films and then several thin films are layered to build up as much voltage as possible.
The Lawrence Berkeley Lab group isn’t the first to pursue viruses as a means for building up electric charge. Researchers at MIT in 2009 said they were able to wire a charge-building virus to a lithium ion battery. The Lawrence Berkeley Lab’s prototype was only able to generate about a quarter of the voltage of a triple A battery, but they believe that their approach to “viral electronics” can scale up.
(via Step on it: Virus could lead to motion-powered gadgets | Cutting Edge - CNET News)
My new pick-up line:
“I would eat you for breakfast
every morning.”
You know that art has changed when a new aesthetic movement announces itself not with a manifesto, but with a tumblr.
— The New Aesthetic Needs to Get Weirder - Ian Bogost (via courtenaybird)
View Larger Drake’s face is designed on the other side.That’s A Sweet Fade, Bro
A camel covered with elaborate patterns waited to be judged in a camel haircut competition at an annual festival in Bikaner, India.
(Dinesh Gupta/Associated Press)
(via twentytwowords.)
Clearly Dope
