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• Education

  

  Intermission: Watch How Your Brain Makes Movies

  A UC Berkeley study results an amazing mini-movie of what your brain does while you're learning.

  by Liz Dwyer

• Design

  

  Want to Make a Movie? All You Need is Fingers

  Xtranormal will let you put words in Sarah Palin's mouth.

  by Zak Stone

• Business

  

  Kickstarter Roundup: Selling Pies, Designing Infographics, Making Movies (Lots of Them)

  From time to time we like to check in with our friends over at Kickstarter to see what new and excellent projects are in need of funding. Here's...

  by Zach Frechette

• Environment

  

  Pollen Bots

  Seasonal allergy sufferers, rejoice! Japanese scientists have deployed an army of anthropomorphic pollen sensors across the country in an...

  by MacKenzie Fegan, MacKenzie Fegan, Danielle Flug, Erik Winkowski, Lindsay Utz, Morgan Currie, Michael Schaubach, Audio Dregs Recordings, Emily Taguchi

• Technology

  

  Part 2: Soldiers and Their Bots

  Unlike soldiers, robots can take the worst of a bomb blast and survive to see another battle. So when an explosive needs to be detonated, the...

  by GOOD, Andrew Bouvé, Labour, Rus Garofalo, Lindsay Utz, Dean Fleischer-Camp, Morgan Currie, Justin Fines, David Axe

• Issue 012

  

  Ikan Grocery Bot

  The Ikan sits on your counter and allows you to scan empty food containers before you thrown them out, then makes a shopping list for you.

  by GOOD

• Technology

  

  Part 4: Rescue Bots of the Future

  Not only are robots being used for military offensives, but they are also being deployed to rescue wounded soldiers. These robot medics can...

  by GOOD, Rus Garofalo, Andrew Bouvé, Justin Fines, Labour, Morgan Currie, Lindsay Utz, Dean Fleischer-Camp, David Axe

• News

  

  Part 1: The ABCs of War Bots

  Technological developments have enabled the evolution of warfare from cavemen bludgeoning each other with blunt objects to career soldiers...

  by GOOD, Justin Fines, David Axe, Labour, Dean Fleischer-Camp, Rus Garofalo, Andrew Bouvé, Morgan Currie, Lindsay Utz

• Environment

  

  Tiny Tuvalu Makes Waves at COP15

  The tiny island nation of Tuvalu, so vulnerable to the threats of climate change, has flexed some new-found muscles here in Copenhagen, and is...

  by Ben Jervey

• Lifestyle

  

  How to Make Bacon at Home

  Michael Ruhlman explains the steps for curing pork belly into bacon in your own kitchen. It takes a week, but it's worth it. Here's how.

  by Peter Smith

• Lifestyle

  

  How to Make Sausage at Home

  Meat grinders should be a glorified addition to the home kitchen, whether you're meats or making vegetable soup stocks.

  by Peter Smith

• Business

  

  Google Bots Take the Wheel in Nevada—After Hitting the DMV

  A milestone in future studies: Robotic cars get a license in the Silver State.

  by Tim Fernholz

• News

  

  Women Make Less Than Men at Every Education Level

  One chart illustrates how depressing and persistent the pay gap is.

  by Amanda Hess

• Culture

  

  Idea: A Word-Shortening Thesaurus That Makes You Better at Twitter

  Thsrs, a new search tool, helps you quickly find short words to use in your tweets. Say goodbye to struggling with Twitter's 140-character limit.

  by Cord Jefferson

• Environment

  

  Making Solar Power Work at Night with Mirrors, Salt, and a Hillside

  Solar-power systems are going to need to provide energy at night or on cloudy days. A team of MIT engineers has a new idea to do just that.

  by Sarah Laskow

• Culture

  

  How the Film Industry's Big Budgets Are Killing Movie Theaters

  With Netflix streaming on the rise, pricey movie theaters are less and less attractive. Let's lower film budgets and thus ticket prices.

  by Cord Jefferson

• Business

  

  A New Way to Rent Movies: A USB Drive Kiosk—Here's How It Works

  USB movie rental kiosks harness new technology, and self-destructing files to let you watch movies more impulsively.

  by Alex Goldmark

• Culture

  

  Where the Robots Came From

  Exploring the sci-fi (and simply sci) roots of the word. Robots are in the air, and I don’t just mean flying robots like the self-assembling,...

  by Mark Peters

• GOOD Blog

  

  We, Robot

  From New Scientist, a modular robot that can reassemble itself when broken apart.As one commenter at YouTube points out, "this is the first step...

  by Andrew Price

• GOOD Blog

  

  Robot Love

  Heart Robot, a creepy Gollum-esque metal-and-circuit infant, is part of a new field of development in robotic science... the emotibot: robots with...

  by Alexandra Marvar