Physicalization looks for gold in the margins - Ars Technica

Which is better, running a lot of individual multiple chips, or fewer, more expensive multicore chips?

Disney puts toll on format shifting, rolls out microSD films - Ars Technica

You can now officially lose your movie in your couch cushions.

You'll also pay more for it, to boot!

Science Links #2, Week of July 20th

If there are too many links, just pick up on the ones that catch your eye, I won’t mind.

Could Exxon Go Green? Oil Giant Invests in Algae Biofuel Research

New Flu Treatment Outsmarts Mutations

New Material Could Cool Electronics 100 Times More Efficiently

Prompts Help Asperger's Patients Overcome Common Problem

This happens all too much, but I guess it’s better than it not happening at all, when you got my condition.

Digital Rat Brain Spontaneously Develops Organized Neuron Patterns

Ten Things You Didn't Know About the Apollo 11 Moon Landing

Fly to the Moon with Google Earth

Darpa's Self-Feeding Sentry Robot is Not a Man-Eater, Company Protests

But Soylent Green is still people.

Augmented Reality Subway Finder iPhone App Is Awesome

Invisible Flash Takes Night Photos Without the Burst of (Visible) Light

How It Works: ESPN's Ball Tracker Follows Home Runs With Doppler Radar

Automated Tabletop Cutter Brings Manufacturing Home

Scientific American video- Kamchatka’s Geothermal Vegetables

The Brain Adapts in a Blink to Compensate for Missing Information

Unlikely suns reveal improbable planets (video)

Does Dark Energy Really Exist?

Bibliospherical Orb of Doom Constructed in Germany

4 Innovations for Cleaner, Flat-Free, Gearless Rides

5 Useless Robots (And Why We Love Them)

Cesium atoms are able to take a "quantum walk"

Microsoft changing default browser setting in IE8

Next For Touchscreens: Temporary Pop-Up Buttons?

May Cool Heads Prevail: How to Save on Air Conditioning

Cagey Solution: Will Nano Traps Make Geothermal Power Earthquake-Safe?

Obama Favors Plug-in Hybrids over Hydrogen Vehicles

Why Music Moves Us - As a person whose got some training as a filmmaker, I’ve come to some of the same conclusions about film. Many people compare editing film to making music. I think that such higher-level artforms are capable of expressing complex ideas that straight speech and communication cannot.

What Will NASA's Next Spacesuit Look Like?

One Kindle Per Child?

Newly Discovered Element 112 Named "Copernicum"

Paperclips Dance for Tips on Japanese Subway, Powered By Electromagnetic Fields

The Prism Is Part Laser Synth, Part Guitar, Pure Fun

Biking Downtown Could Help Power The Bus That Gives You A Ride Home

Coffee Drinkers, Say Hello to Scald-Proof Nanofabric

Electric Gullwing: Mercedes Previews a Shockingly Awesome Sports Car

Pneumatic Grappling Hook to Enable Robot Locomotion

Windpower Could Provide 40 Times Earth's Power Needs

India to Issue Biometric ID Cards to All 1.2 Billion Citizens

40 Years After Moon Landing, a Question Remains: What Next?

Key Brain Section Never Multitasks—It Just Switches Very Fast

Light Repels Light

Terahertz Transistor Could Usher in Era of Cheap Surveillance Video Cameras

Helping Robots Get a Grip

Dow to Test Algae Ethanol

Catching Spammers in the Act

Week in Microsoft: Windows 7 and Office 2010 leaks galore