Alex Eichler

3/20/10

Space Rays Might Be Responsible For Crashing Your Car

Toyota vehicles have been having a problem with sudden, uncontrollable acceleration lately. It's been variously…

Alex Eichler

PublishedMarch 20, 2010

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3/20/10

Professor Believes It's Our Moral Imperative to Launch Packets of Life Into Space

Is it possible to send starter kits of Earth life to other worlds in the hopes of triggering terraforming processes…

Alex Eichler

PublishedMarch 20, 2010

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3/13/10

For Ninety Grand, You Too Can Own a Jetpack

A New Zealand aerospace company has developed the world's first commercially available jetpack. It travels sixty…

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PublishedMarch 13, 2010

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3/13/10

It's a Slime Mold's World, We're Just Living In It

It seems we're always learning something new about slime molds, the bizarre roaming cell-colonies where countless…

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PublishedMarch 13, 2010

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3/6/10

NeuroPop's Ghostly Synth Tunes Take Aim At Your Brain

A neuroscience professor has teamed up with a composer in the hopes of making music that stimulates different areas…

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PublishedMarch 6, 2010

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3/6/10

The Problem With a Hundred Internets In Your Junk Drawer

Are we drawing closer to a day when everything that's a "thing"—from spoons to shirts to skateboards—comes with an…

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PublishedMarch 6, 2010

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2/27/10

Robot Skin Is On The Way

British material-design company Peratech recently inked a deal with MIT to create pressure-sensitive,…

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PublishedFebruary 27, 2010

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2/27/10

New Interface Will Let You Fling This Article Across the Room

Oblong Industries recently unveiled its new "spatial operating environment," a computer interface that lets you…

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PublishedFebruary 27, 2010

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2/21/10

Enter the SCP Foundation's Bottomless Catalog of the Weird

Do you like short works of fiction? Do you like things that are effin' strange? This may be the website for you.

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PublishedFebruary 21, 2010

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2/20/10

Marine Biologist Hopes to Raise Giant Squid In Captivity

Steve O'Shea already holds a world record for rearing squid in a controlled environment. But everybody's got a…

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PublishedFebruary 20, 2010

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2/14/10

We're More Likely to Be Kind to Each Other in Rooms That Smell Good

Want to promote an atmosphere of honesty and teamwork? Bust out some citrus candles and turn on all the lights. New…

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PublishedFebruary 14, 2010

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2/13/10

Bees Can Remember What Human Faces Look Like

If you ever get into a tense confrontation with a bee, and then you have to back down for whatever reason, don't try…

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PublishedFebruary 13, 2010

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2/7/10

X-Shaped Faux-Comet Likely Related to Prehistoric Dinosaur-Smasher

P/2010 A2, the mysterious object streaking through the solar system, appears to belong to the same family of…

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PublishedFebruary 7, 2010

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2/6/10

Nobel-Winning Physicist Says Time Can't Run Backward

In Hyderabad this week, Anthony James Leggett delivered some unwelcome news: The earth is warming. Good science…

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PublishedFebruary 6, 2010

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1/31/10

London's Royal Society Determines We May Have Aliens Living In Our Noses

This week, the Royal Society held a two-day seminar to discuss topics of extraterrestrial import. How might aliens…

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PublishedJanuary 31, 2010

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1/30/10

Universal Heat Death Could Happen Sooner Than We Realized

According to researchers at Australian National University, the end of the universe will happen earlier than anyone…

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PublishedJanuary 30, 2010

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1/24/10

New Robotic Maid Does Your Laundry, Shuffles Around Like a Drunk

Researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology have created a robot that can do a number of basic…

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PublishedJanuary 24, 2010

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1/23/10

At Last, A Computer That Takes The Measure Of Hydrogen Molecules

Thanks to quantum computing, we now have a fairly precise idea how much energy a hydrogen molecule gives off. Gone…

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PublishedJanuary 23, 2010

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1/17/10

There's A "Dark Disk of Material" Hovering Out In Space

Some kind of obstruction is blocking our view of Epsilon Aurigae, a star in the constellation Auriga. Its exact…

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PublishedJanuary 17, 2010

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1/3/10

The Rock That Vacuums Up Carbon Dioxide

There's an igneous rock called peridotite that can sponge carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and store it in…

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PublishedJanuary 3, 2010

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Alex Eichler's posts

Space Rays Might Be Responsible For Crashing Your Car

Professor Believes It's Our Moral Imperative to Launch Packets of Life Into Space

For Ninety Grand, You Too Can Own a Jetpack

It's a Slime Mold's World, We're Just Living In It

NeuroPop's Ghostly Synth Tunes Take Aim At Your Brain

The Problem With a Hundred Internets In Your Junk Drawer

Robot Skin Is On The Way

New Interface Will Let You Fling This Article Across the Room

Enter the SCP Foundation's Bottomless Catalog of the Weird

Marine Biologist Hopes to Raise Giant Squid In Captivity

We're More Likely to Be Kind to Each Other in Rooms That Smell Good

Bees Can Remember What Human Faces Look Like

X-Shaped Faux-Comet Likely Related to Prehistoric Dinosaur-Smasher

Nobel-Winning Physicist Says Time Can't Run Backward

London's Royal Society Determines We May Have Aliens Living In Our Noses

Universal Heat Death Could Happen Sooner Than We Realized

New Robotic Maid Does Your Laundry, Shuffles Around Like a Drunk

At Last, A Computer That Takes The Measure Of Hydrogen Molecules

There's A "Dark Disk of Material" Hovering Out In Space

The Rock That Vacuums Up Carbon Dioxide