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on February 26, 2006

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on February 13, 2006

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Put on Your Red Shoes and Dance the Blues

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Bush hates biotech?

on February 01, 2006

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Cell Phone Memories, or How I Went to a Concert and All I Got Was This Blurry Cell Phone Image

on January 21, 2006

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The Aging Brain: the Best is Yet to Come

on January 19, 2006

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East of the Web: Short Stories and Word Games

on January 16, 2006

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Spend an Afternoon at the (Virtual) British Library

on January 13, 2006

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One stop shop for science blogs

on January 13, 2006

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Baking tips: cookies and beyond

on January 06, 2006

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Why do I subscribe?

on January 06, 2006

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2005: The Year in Science and Technology

on January 03, 2006

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Louisiana-style Chicken Curry

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I've always been fascinated by futurology articles, since they tell you so much about the times they were written in. The Modern Mechanix blog has a great article along those lines: "Miracles You'll See in the Next Fifty Years", published in the February 1950 issue of Popular Mechanics , by Waldemar Kaempffert . Kaempffert was no ordinary reporter. He had a long career in science journalism, with stints as managing editor of Scientific American (1900-1916), editor of Popular Science Monthly (1916-1922), and Editor of Science and Engineering at the New York Times (1922-1928, 1931-1956). He was also director of the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago for several years, leaving after a dispute with the board of directors over the objectivity of the exhibits (and his lax accounting practices). Kaempffert saw first hand the rapid development in technology. He was born in New York in 1877, the year after Bell patented the telephone. He saw the rise of the automobile,...

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