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Tag Archives: harvard
The Baby with the Biggest Head Wins
Sometimes science fiction looks backward instead of forward—some time travel stories, such as Ray Bradbury’s “A Sound of Thunder,” propel readers not into space, but back in time, so that characters can carouse with dinosaurs. Or, y’know, try to shoot … Continue reading
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Tagged breeding, caveman, cloning, de-extinct, Der Spiegel, dinosaurs, diversity, extinct, genes, genetics, george church, harvard, hominid, homo sapien, human genome project, Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton, monoculture, neanderthal, Neanderthal Parallax, Robert Sawyer, science fiction, Sound of Thunder, woolly mammoth
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These Are Not the Droids You Want
Who hasn’t tried to play a Jedi mind trick? After all, if whiny, sniveling Luke can control minds, there’s no reason the rest of us can’t learn. Could This Happen has explored the possibility of neural prosthetics, brain implants, and … Continue reading
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Tagged 1984, behavior, brain, brains, brave new world, clockwork orange, conditioning, genetic engineering, harvard, huxley, invasion of the body snatchers, jedi mind trick, laser, lasers, light, manchurian candidate, mind control, nervous system, neural circuits, neurons, neuroscience, newspeak, orwell, pavlov, robocop, sensory procsesing, worms
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Because Titanium Lacks Flexibility (and it’s so 2010)
The first time I ever watched Transformers, my first thought was that the Decepticons were far cooler than the Autobots and my second thought was how amazing it would be to be able to change shape. Since the days of … Continue reading
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Tagged autobot, camouflage, cephalopods, color, cuttlefish, DARPA, decepticon, harvard, maximum mobility and manipulation, microfluid, octopus, optimus prime, robot, sam malone, shape, shape shifter, silicon, size, squid, temperature, terminator, transformers, true blood
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