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My son Benjamin once got honorable mention for his science project, which consisted of going to a firing range and seeing whether silk is really bulletproof, as it's sometimes purported to be...
José Mujica is the Uruguayan Bloomberg.Like the mayor of New York, the president of Uruguay is a social engineer, convinced to the core that he knows best by getting citizens to do the right thing.Bloomberg and Mujica even have a mutual fan club going...
At Scientific American 's weekly editorial meetings, I'm often the loudmouth.I usually try to get the last word in. When someone suggests writing a story about Google's Web-search glasses, I react from mid-viscera: "That's the worst tech idea that I've ever heard of." Maglev?...
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