• The future of silk
  "Silk is stronger than steel or kevlar. We are already using it to transport vaccines without cold chains and make automatically dissolving stitches. What else could it be used for?"
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• The Kingpin of Fakers : Colonel Dinshah P. Ghadiali and the Spectro-Chrome
  "…Ghadiali, who invented the Spectro-Chrome in 1920, claimed to be able to cure almost everything with its twelve colors […] 'Stop Insulin at once,' he advised diabetics, 'and irradiate yourself with Yellow Systemic alternated with Magenta [...] and eat plenty of Raw or Brown Sugar and all the Starches!!!.'"
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• The long, strange history of Teflon...
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• The ocean vents where life on Earth likely began
  "In a recent paper, biologists outlined a three-part hypothesis for how all life as we know it began."
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• The revolutionary concept of standard sizes only dates to the 1920s
  Ernst Neufert and 'Architects Data'.
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• The Value of the Public Domain
  "This paper calls for a re-orientation of innovation and information policy. In our current paradigm, monopoly rights, in the form of intellectual property, displace all else from our thinking on this subject making access a peripheral issue."
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• Thermonator : the first-ever flamethrower-wielding robot dog
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• Twilight of the velocipede : Typesetting races before the age of Linotype
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• Visual sound : Mysteries of the human voice revealed by Megan Watts Hughes
  "From 1885, Megan began to visualise her voice. She created a scientific instrument, the eidophone, which she would sing into; it would capture an image of the sound using sand and powders."
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• What's the difference between real and perceived value?
  "Marketer Rory Sutherland says advertising adds value to a product by changing our perception, rather than the product itself. He says perceived value can be just as satisfying as what we consider 'real' value."
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• Why Japan's rail workers can't stop pointing at things
  "Known in Japanese as 'shisa kanko', pointing-and-calling works on the principle of associating one’s tasks with physical movements and vocalizations to prevent errors by “raising the consciousness levels of workers”"
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• Xanadu Basics 1a
  "The original hypertext concept of the 1960s got lost on the way to the Web--and all current document standards oppose it." (Ted Nelson)
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