Quoted: An MIT-designed building featuring water walls that can be programmed to display patterns and images is being unveiled this week at the opening of the Zaragoza World Expo in Spain.

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Quoted: Building on previous research which focused on high-performance terahertz devices, Boston Univ. and Duke Univ. scientists have created a metamaterial that takes in all light of a specific frequency range. It absorbs all incident radiation—electric and magnetic.

Quoted: Ordinary New Orleanians restore their city, avoiding lower Manhattan’s master-planned debacle. Spring 2008

Quoted: Galahad Clark never intended to get into the shoe business, let alone the anti-shoe business. And he likely never would have, if it weren’t for the Wu-Tang Clan

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Quoted: That's why I'm skeptical of people who look at some catastrophic failure of a complex system and say, "Wow, the odds of this happening are astronomical. Five different safety systems had to fail simultaneously!" What they don't realize is that one or two of those systems are failing all the time, and it's up to the other three systems to prevent the failure from turning into a disaster. You never see a news story that says "A gas refinery did not explode today because simultaneous failures in the first, second, fourth, and fifth safety systems did not lead to a disaster thanks to a correctly-functioning third system." The role of the failure and the savior may change over time, until eventually all of the systems choose to have a bad day all on the same day, and something goes boom.

Quoted: Self-replicating printer frees-up 3D printing under GNU