Adventures of a Speck of Dust

current READINGS

• The New Aesthetic at SXSW2012, blogged new-aesthetically
  http://new-aesthetic.tumblr.com/ “The speculati sure were thick on the ground at #sxaesthetic. These guys quote Pynchon and Rilke; they’ve even got a literary wing.” @bruces 2h Greg J. Smith ‏ ‪@serial_consign‬ From afar #sxsw kind of se...
• Ex-Inspector Rejects IAEA Iran Bomb Test Chamber Claim by Gareth Porter + Robert Kelley: New Iran report proves nothing
  by Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at IPS Nov. 19, 2011 WASHINGTON, Nov 19, 2011 (IPS) – A former inspector for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has repudiated its major new claim that Iran built an explosive...
• Ryan Frank’s A(dd)Y(our)O(wn) Lamps Encourage Re-Use
  Ryan Frank has just launched a new line of contemporary, upcycled interior pieces at Barcelona Design Week. The A(dd)Y(our)O(wn) lighting range gives everyone the chance to be part designer and part manufacturer by cleverly asking users to integrate...
• Researchers Successfully Create Artificial Blood
  Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have successfully created artificial, oxygen-carrying red blood cells that they believe could go into human medical trials in as little as two years. The cells aren’t synthetic, they are created using hum...
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