Live@HOPE, Jeff Potter Cooks for Geeks
Jeff Potter plays with his food, and wants to get you to as well. He experiments with equipment, techniques, chemistry, even the psychology and genetics of flavor. Sometimes it’s delicious, and sometimes he blows up the kitchen. Sometimes both. When Potter wanted to make really good pizza, he went down to his local pizza joint…
Mercury Flyby Maps New Territory
The results from the Messenger spacecraft’s third and final flyby of Mercury are finally in and cover ground never before mapped. But they leave scientists wanting more. NASA’s orbiter swung around Mercury on Sept. 29, 2009 to get a gravitational boost before settling into orbit in March 2011. The snapshots it took as it flew…
Live@HOPE, Monochrom’s Grenzfurthner: “The future is like the Jetsons, plus rape”
The idea began over beers. Johannes Grenzfurthner (of Monochrom) and friends wondered if the notion that porn drives technology really was true or urban myth. So, they decided, why not organize a public event and find out? Arse Elektronika, a conference about technology and sex, came screaming into the world. “It was true,” says Grenzfurthner.…