xjparker

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Bioscleave House
Two architects who believe that the house they designed in Long Island will prevent you from aging.
The Monitor #14
It's summertime, so we demand things to be awesome. Even science.
The Monitor #13
Dissecting a giant squid, dethroning the polar bear, turbocharging evolution, and programming smarter robots.
The Super Mario Multiverse
Using Mario to explain the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics
Polar Bears: the silent menace
Climate change deniers sure have some paranoid ideas about polar bears!
The Monitor #10
The All-Green Episode: mapping the US's carbon footprint, nanopollution in your socks, the truth about solar energy, and turning pollution into DVDs.
The Monitor #9
The science of cute, a quake-predicting laptop, a gene that lets Olympians dope, and the useful properties of sewer gas.
The Monitor #8
The Space Episode: a Canadian robot, extrasolar methane, matter vs. antimatter, and Arthur C. Clarke - RIP.
The Monitor #7
We get a new name (sort of), the Hobbit controversy rages on, science+religion = new sins, and drugs in your tap water.
The Monitor #6
The all-apocalypse episode: a doomsday vault for seeds, tracking a killer asteroid, targeting antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and contemplating a real-life Cylon attack. You better frakkin' believe it.
The Monitor #5
Rounding up of the best shizz from the AAAS annual meeting, questioning social networks, and an open call to viewers-- help us rename this show!
The Monitor #4
Another inscreen roundup of science news: dinosaurs, Paul Janka, the Predator, and Milton Bradley all figure in. No, really.
The Monitor #3
Episode 3 of my inscreen news roundup for Scientific American. New episodes every week.
The Monitor #2
2nd episode of the "desktop newscast" I created for Scientific American.
Instant Egghead: Quantum Computers
How do you use atoms to compute stuff? And how is some spare change gonna help explain it? Like so.
The Monitor #1
Scientific American's desktop newscast.
Instant Egghead: Synthetic Biology
How do you make man-made DNA come alive?
CES 2008: self-driving SUV
GM's "The Boss" won the DARPA challenge to build an fully autonomous vehicle. At CES it took me for a spin.
CES 2008: force-feedback game vest
Strap on this vest before firing up your first-person shooter, and you'll feel every frag.
CES 2008 Preview
A glimpse of the unintentional hilarity that is CES.
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