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“Gentlemen, engineer your astronauts.”

Spun: November 16, 2010
“I say let’s build better astronauts.” Craggy Windman was serious. He was standing on the dais in a slept-in Armani suit, tie undone, disheveled salt-and-pepper beard and talking to an assembly of rocket scientists. (Yes, you had to be a rocket scientist with a NASA badge to get into the room.) He stabbed his pointer [...]
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Catch 22: Gene modified crops threatened by superweeds

News: Gene Modification    May 5, 2010
To quote the movie Jurassic Park, “Nature finds a way.” In this case, according to a ground-breaking story in the New York Times, is the ability of weeds to circumvent the super weedkiller Roundup: Just as the heavy use of antibiotics contributed to the rise of drug-resistant supergerms, American farmers’ near-ubiquitous use of the weedkiller [...]
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Biopunk

Spun: March 14, 2010
Biopunk: Combining biotechnology with punk doesn’t sound very appetizing. It’s a punk in a garage messing around with bacteria genetics to produce the world’s first pet-eating amoeba colony. Something like that. The word isn’t that new. Biopunk is, among other things, already a genre of science fiction that focuses on biotechnology and subversives. It has [...]
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