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(This story is inspired by Robert Nozick’s “experience machine” thought experiment, which can be found in his book, “Anarchy, State, and Utopia.”) In this story, we follow one of the future’s most influential thinkers as he encounters a new technology that changes everything and forces him to rethink his entire life and work.

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Making a rainy day fun. bigsmile

PANTONE recently collaborated with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s designers and art directors to transform Seoul, Korea’s streets during the dreary monsoon season. The appropriately titled Project Monsoon venture began with the creative team painting Seoul’s somber roads with hydrochromic paint–a type of paint that changes from transparent to opaque when it gets wet–to form colorful murals inspired by South Korean culture. East Asian customs focus on the river and its elegant flow, which is exactly what the designers wanted to capture in their public works of art. These exuberant pieces are then unexpectedly unveiled as rain falls from the cheerless gray sky and the water droplets come in contact with the ground.

Work at Woods Hole using low-frequency, long-distance transmitters is about to change how to find things underwater.

A satellite mission backs up—with meticulous precision—major gravitational principle.

Amid Sichuan’s Hengduan Mountains, mysterious stone towers built jut more than 100 feet into the sky. No one is sure why.

Uber claims to have found no evidence that users’ private data was compromised in latest breach, but screenshots and information from various sources.

Official Post from Posthuman University.

A giant new tech hub near Shanghai successfully attracted major names like Tesla, but Lingang remains almost empty of residents three years into its launch.

Mina Bionta explores how light interacts with matter by capturing snapshots of those interactions on the timescale of the light’s oscillations.