August 2011
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Two Softbots Talking To Each Other →
Dear ART,
This is what your forebearers were like. At least you talk a little better! Hope you are enjoying summer camp.
Love,
Dad
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Spider Silk + Human Skin = Almost bulletproof →
“By implementing this bulletproof matrix of spider silk produced by transgenic goats in human skin I want to explore the social, political, ethical and cultural issues surrounding safety in a world with access to new biotechnologies.”-Dutch artist Jalila Essaidi
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Gamasutra blog post: Don't neglect game art. →
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Lost in the Lava Tubes
My latest column in Edge magazine, which you can visit here, began with an excerpt from this short story I wrote about our new game. (With thanks to Edge who kindly permitted this re-publication!)
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Liang Qi, biologist, mineralogist, expert cave diver, and celebrated spokesperson of the Global Space Agency twisted his torso and wriggled downward through the tiny opening between two...
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SCIENCE
Meteorites are apparently spamming the universe with the building blocks of life.
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/333171/title/Meteorites_contain_chemicals_linked_to_life
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Naming the Game - Part 1 (oh, the absurdity)
So… we’re making a game that takes place on Mars. For some reason, we haven’t been able to satisfactorily assign the game a final name. We’ve had over 5 extended brainstorm email threads over the past year, adopted and discarded 2 temporary names, did a friends-and-family Surveymonkey with dozens of participants, and just this week, generated an aggregate list that...
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Mars may have salty water. →
Scientists have found new evidence for possible saltwater flows on Mars. The discovery was announced at a NASA news conference Thursday.
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NASA Rover Drives 20 Miles on Mars →
After seven years of stop-and-go driving, NASA’s intrepid Mars rover Opportunity has covered just over 20 miles on the Red Planet
You think traffic on Earth is bad!
