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Michael Crichton, Dead at 66
Michael Crichton Jon Chase/Harvard University Michael Crichton, best known as the author of such books like Jurassic Park and movies like Westworld, died last night from cancer at his home in Los...
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Girl Scout Team Patents Prosthetic Hand Device, Helping a Toddler Write For...
Danielle and the BOB-1 via Girl Scouts Proving that the FIRST program is much more than games of robotic awesomeness, a team of Girl Scouts in Iowa engineered a prosthetic device that allowed a...
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Silver Ballpoint Pen Can Draw Functional Electronic Circuits on Paper
Nano Drawing A flexible array of LEDs mounted on paper. Hand-drawn silver ink lines form the interconnects between the LEDs. Bok Yeop Ahn We've long marveled at the wondrous creations enabled by 3-D...
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Robot Journalist Will Snag Pulitzer By 2016, Predicts Robot-Journalist...
Computer Generated News Articles Beth Rankin on Flickr The New York Times took a look at start-up Narrative Science today, a company that has developed what is a pretty cool step forward for...
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5 Tips For Scientists On How To Not Write Like Scientists
Dusty Academic Journals Mace Ojala via Flickr Reading through scientific papers can be a terrifying experience, and not just because of the jargon. Take, for example, this string of words: "We...
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What The Future Will Look Like, According To Famous Science Fiction...
Predicting The Future Accurat/Brain PickingsOur science fiction isn't always on the nose. 1984 didn't look exactly like 1984, and 2001 didn't bring us the kind of Space Odysseys we envisioned. So...
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For Mystery Novels With Accurate Scientific Detail, A Badge Of Authenticity
Raymond Chandler Wikimedia Commons The Washington Academy of Sciences is offering a different kind of peer review: they'll take a look at your mystery book, and if it's up to scientific snuff, give it...
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How Computer Analysis Uncovered J. K. Rowling's Secret Novel
J. K. Rowling In 2010 Daniel Ogren, CC-BY-2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The Cuckoo's Calling, a detective novel by first-time author Robert Gailbraith, just got solved in a big way. This weekend, the...
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The Woman Who Could Write, But Couldn't Read
Neurons Patrick Hoesly on Flickr One morning, a kindergarten teacher was about to take attendance for her class when she realized she couldn't read the paper in her hands. She tried looking over her...
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An Essay-Writing Machine Made To Fool Other Machines
A Human Essayist U.S. Census Bureau, Public Information Office (PIO) Step right up, ladies and gentlemen, we're taking bets. The fight is machine versus machine. Will one of them be able to spot the...
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Associated Press Will Use Robots To Write Articles
Writing Robot Mirko Tobias Schaefer/Gastev on Flickr, CC BY 2.0The venerated AP now plans to generate and sell thousands of automated business articles a year. The robot-written stories will bring up...
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Michael Crichton, best known as the author of such books like Jurassic Park and movies like Westworld, died last night from cancer at his home in Los Angeles, California at…
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Proving that the FIRST program is much more than games of robotic awesomeness, a team of Girl Scouts in Iowa engineered a prosthetic device that allowed a Georgia toddler to…
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The New York Times took a look at start-up Narrative Science today, a company that has developed what is a pretty cool step forward for artificial intelligence, and a pretty…
View Article5 Tips For Scientists On How To Not Write Like Scientists
Reading through scientific papers can be a terrifying experience, and not just because of the jargon. Take, for example, this string of words: "We classified injuries as…
View ArticleWhat The Future Will Look Like, According To Famous Science Fiction...
Our science fiction isn't always on the nose. 1984 didn't look exactly like 1984, and 2001 didn't bring us the kind of Space Odysseys we envisioned. So forgive us for being…
View ArticleFor Mystery Novels With Accurate Scientific Detail, A Badge Of Authenticity
The Washington Academy of Sciences is offering a different kind of peer review: they'll take a look at your mystery book, and if it's up to scientific snuff, give it a…
View ArticleHow Computer Analysis Uncovered J. K. Rowling's Secret Novel
The Cuckoo's Calling, a detective novel by first-time author Robert Gailbraith, just got solved in a big way. This weekend, the U.K.'s The Times reportedThe Cuckoo's…
View ArticleThe Woman Who Could Write, But Couldn't Read
One morning, a kindergarten teacher was about to take attendance for her class when she realized she couldn't read the paper in her hands. She tried looking over her lesson…
View ArticleAn Essay-Writing Machine Made To Fool Other Machines
Step right up, ladies and gentlemen, we're taking bets. The fight is machine versus machine. Will one of them be able to spot the tricks of the other? Machine #1 is an…
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