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It’s a fiction writer’s job to create authentic worlds and suspend disbelief. One of the more time-consuming techniques in their toolbox? Inventing new…
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The annual San Diego Comicon attracts crowds in excess of 100,000 people. But there are plenty of colorful cosplay outfits, industry peeps, classes, and…
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A decade ago, few people were talking about sustainability, especially in the South Bronx. It was there that Majora Carter founded programs for…
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Last weekend, the box-office bowed to the marvel blockbuster dream-team The Avengers, which pits a group of righteous superheroes against their greatest…
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Produced by Jonathan LynchIn the 1980s classic comedy revenge of the nerds, there was a clear cut boundary between the titular nerds and the preppy,…
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Recently, popular books like Max Brook’s World War Z, and Colson Whitehead’s Zone One took serious literary stabs at the realm of the living dead. Actual…
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A Fantastic Voyage to Kill SuperbugsNano-technology is enabling breakthroughs in a number of scientific fields at an unimaginably small scale. Consider that the basic unit of measurement for…
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We begin with homophobia in American hospitals. A recent, New York Times op-ed by Dr. Pauline Chencaught our eye. In an era of rapidly expanding…
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How laser technology is being applied to a new line of cochlear implants. Now, can someone please just get us some freaking shark with some freaking laser…
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Raw Story Executive Editor Megan Carpentier joins us to discuss the ever retrievable well of internet content and provides some helpful hints for would-be…