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Posted in: Uncategorized- Human memory: memory chip could mean we never forget – Telegraph
However difficult the practicalities, there’s no reason in principle why neural prostheticists in future couldn’t pick up where nature left off, incorporating such master maps into neural implants: the kind of brain-boosting chips familiar from science fi - Embryo research: a source of hope or horror? – Telegraph
These are profound issues in terms of science, law and morality – and this is why the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill is among the most divisive to have come before MPs. - CCTV boom has failed to slash crime, say police | UK news | The Guardian
Only 3% of street robberies in London were solved using CCTV images, despite the fact that Britain has more security cameras than any other country in Europe. - Breeding toxins from dead PCs | Environment | The Guardian
The illegal trade in e-waste is highly lucrative. It is possible to extract more gold out of a tonne of electronic circuitry than from a tonne of gold-bearing rock. But illegal dumping is putting at risk charities and other organisations that donate secon - Among the archives: America does it bigger and better | Art & architecture | Guardian Unlimited
Online photography collection at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. - MoMA exhibit dies five weeks into show – The Art Newspaper
Victimless Leather Jacket has died. Catts and Zurr say the work which was fed nutrients by tube, expanded too quickly and clogged its own incubation system just five weeks after the show opened. - gmtPlus9 (-15): You Stinked
You Stinked is a series of haunting black and white images of pigs in an abattoir - TOKYOMANGO: Blue Chihuahua Trend Spawns Lots of Genetic Defects
These illnesses are the tragic consequences of the national penchant in Japan for turning things cute and cuddly into social status symbols. - ArtCal – Chelsea – Max Lang Gallery – Marc Wellman, Evolution
The exhibition examines questions of biology and the body in contemporary sculptural practices. Tracing a pseudo-Darwinian storyline from biomorphic abstraction, from flora, to fauna, to the human figure, EVOLUTION covers a broad spectrum of artistic posi - ArtCal – Chelsea – Daneyal Mahmood Gallery – Justine Cooper, Terminal
The title of the show refers to her photographs depicting medical robots and mannequins. These sophisticated manikins, typically connected up to computers, simulate living situations from crisis to childbirth. At once alien and familiar, they represent th - ArtCal – Chelsea – Moti Hasson Gallery – Shuli Hallak, Cargo
document cargo in its state of transit between production and consumption. Almost every manufactured product humans consume spends time in a shipping container, yet consumers remain largely unaware of the process by which goods are actually transported. - busting out :: hyperexperience
Active Disassembly is a promising technique for recycling electronics that relies on shape-memory connectors inside devices to pop apart under heat, separating valuable components without any manual labor required. - Tom Sachs’s Blue Whale, Hello Kitty and Other Offbeat Artworks Featured at Two New York Shows – New York Times
at the Lever House - organism: making art with living systems » STUDY FOR LIT FROM WITHIN
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