A Brief and Fearful Star

Month: June 2018

Phoenix will no longer be Phoenix if Waymo’s driverless-car experiment succeeds

By Ed Finn MIT Technology Review

Frankenbook

A collaborative reading experiment with Mary Shelley’s classic novel.

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Frankenbook: collective annotations on Mary Shelley’s 200 year old novel “Frankenstein”

By Cory Doctorow Boing Boing

200 Years of Frankenstein: Mary Shelley’s Masterpiece as a Lens on Today’s Most Pressing Questions of Science, Ethics, and Human Creativity

By Maria Popova Brain Pickings

What have we learned from science’s most infamous doctor-patient relationship?

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