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November 25, 2009

Climategate: It's not going away.
By Maddy Myers

ClimateGate continues unabated, and since science dubiously falls under the purview of dorkdom, here’s some color commentary specially packaged by Laser Orgy. I should warn you that the extent of my scientific know-how comes from reading the backround materials in Resident Evil 5 about Las Plagas … which is to say, I’m more of a science fiction type of gal, and I'm anything but an expert on the real deal.

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science, Science Fiction, Global Warming

November 12, 2009

Perfume, engineered from Dead Celebrities' DNA.
By Maddy Myers

Back in 2007, My DNA Fragrance began its production of perfumes and colognes engineered from customers' genetic make-up. You swab yourself, send in the sample, and wait for the experts to ... well, actually, it's not clear what those perfume experts are doing after you mail that sample in. Their press release says it's a "personalized fragrance .

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science, My DNA Perfume, Genetics

November 07, 2009

Happy Carl Sagan Day!
By Carrie Battan

^{Caleb P.'s Carl Sagan jack-o-lantern [via Nick Sagan's blog]}

In the 1980s, astronomy legend Carl Sagan achieved the impossible: he actually made science popular, thanks to Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, the epic TV series that's been subsequently viewed by a half-billion people (and counting) across the world.

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science, James Rand, astronomy

October 20, 2009

Horro-bots: The Next Frontier
By webteam

Looking like a terrible hybrid between a Chinese dumpling and some sort of anemic beating heart, here's the military's latest god-mocking high-tech nightmare fuel. (And we thought the A-bomb was scary stuff.) Meet ChemBot, the latest brainchild of Bedford-based company iRobot (creator of household slave-droids Roomba and Scooba, which, incidentally, also give us a serious case of the heebie-jeebies).

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science, robotics, MIT

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