Skinbots

from Business Insider Robots keep getting creepier by Jaures Yip Researchers created a 3D facial mold and a 2D robot covered with lab-grown living skin. The University of Tokyo© The University of Tokyo It’s not just nuts and bolts keeping robots together — now...

Kinky Friedman Gone

from NBC News Kinky Friedman, provocative musician, author and one-time politician, dies at 79 The satirical country and western iconoclast ran for governor of Texas in 2006 with campaign slogans like “My Governor is a Jewish Cowboy.” By Variety Kinky Friedman in...

Next To Heaven (Summer 2025)

from Publishing Perspectives Authors Equity’s First 100 Days Madeline McIntosh introduces the concept behind Authors Equity at the 2024 Readmagine conference in Madrid. Image: Publishing Perspectives, Porter Anderson Since Readmagine, Authors Equity has issued a list...

Assange Down Under

from Associated Press WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returns to Australia a free man after US legal battle ends BY  RICK RYCROFT AND ROD MCGUIRK CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returned to his homeland Australia aboard a charter jet and...

There is no dark side of the moon…

from NPR China has just returned the first-ever samples from the far side of the moon by Geoff Brumfiel The Chang’e 6 capsule landed in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia on Tuesday. / CCTV Screenshot by NPR A Chinese probe has returned to Earth carrying the...