So you’ve chopped off your hand…now what?
Imagine that you’re working on a home improvement project and, being a bit of a klutz, something goes wrong: a slip of the saw and you’ve lost a finger. Is there any hope of regaining your lost digit? While there young children reportedly have the ability to regrow amputated fingertips, in adults it’s possible with…
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Peggy Kolm -- Science In My Fiction
A description of online shopping, circa 1981
I’m often shocked at how accurate some 20th century predictions of online shopping were. However, these retail prognosticators frequently miss the mark by assuming that individual goods would need to be photographed or videotaped live for consumers. While I can kind of understand how this might make sense with fresh fruit, today we have sites…
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Matt Novak -- Paleo-Future Blog