RT @NYTScience: The #LightSail spacecraft worked, keeping the dream of solar sailing alive. By @kchangnyt
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If Hogwarts was a Startup Accelerator...
@KikiSchirr HT @zackkanter

“Digitization allows those without technical expertise to operate at higher, more abstract levels.” via @glowingplant

RT @nytimes: This race to Alaska is fueled by determination and ingenuity, but no motors

RT @brainpicker: The unlikely story of the world's first moon map and its remarkable creator

“the beginning of a future in which robots can work alongside people to reduce the toll of disasters” @DARPA

Just found out that it's basketball season and the championship is going on.

Brilliant interview with @GreatDismal, who says sci-fi writers are not such great future predictors

The humanities and science share the virtues of empiricism and skepticism via @michaelshermer

RT @nytDeniseGrady: Imagine a test for every virus you've ever caught in your whole life. It's (almost) here.