RepRap is an open-source 3D printer that can replicate itself, an idea keen to John von Neumann.
Category: Science
Bio-hacking
BeOpenLab, inspired by New York City’s Community Biolab (genspace), is Geneva’s first open-source biohacking lab ; The Bioscope in Geneva is a new form of university laboratory open to all citizens, part of the Hackteria community platform ; in Lausanne (Renens), the Hackuarium is part of UniverCité.
Inauguration next week-end of the new museum of ethnography of Geneva.
L’artiste et scientifique Frank Malina a fondé le Leonardo Journal à Paris en 1968, en hommage à Léonard de Vinci.
Scientific research being funded in Europe mostly with public money,
every citizen has the right to know and to ask where their subsidies
are going, and what they are being used for – c’est le sujet de cet ouvrage.
An army of librarians has united to offer answers to any university-level scholarly question, via their online form.
Killer robots
Les robots-tueurs ne sont plus une fiction… dixit l’Observatoire des armements à Lyon.
Revue interdisciplinaire de sciences sociales fondée par le Prof. Jacques Lévy, spécialiste de géographie politique.
In 1945, after the war, Dr. Vannevar Bush published «As we may think» in the Atlantic monthly, calling all scientists to concentrate their efforts on pacific instruments and the dissemination of knowledge.