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Plants may use language to communicate with each other, Virginia Tech researcher finds | Virginia Tech News | Virginia Techvtnews.vt.edu
The finding by Jim Westwood, a professor of plant pathology, physiology, and weed science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, throws open the door to a new arena of science that explores how plants communicate with each other on a molecula... -
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GIF YouTube | Make Animated GIFs from Youtubegifyoutube.com
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Yubari, Japan: a city learns how to dietheguardian.com
Known in its heyday as the capital of coal, Yubari has lost 90% of its population in 50 years. With deer roaming freely, are there lessons for rustbelt cities around the world? -
It Takes a New Kind of Worker to Make "Instant" Happenrecode.net
Part two in Re/code's special series on the instant gratification economy. -
Inside The Making Of The New "Dungeons & Dragons"fastcodesign.com
A 40-year tradition of fantasy gaming wants to claim back its throne. -
This 1874 New York Herald Feature Sent Manhattanites Running for Their Livesslate.com
Excerpted from In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides, out Aug. 5 from Doubleday. Close to midnight on the evening of Sunday, Nov. 8, 1874, as the early edition of the next day’s New York Herald... -
3D Printed Sugar | the sugar labthe-sugar-lab.com
The Sugar Lab is a micro-design firm for custom 3D printed sugar. With our background in architecture and our penchant for complex geometry, we are bringing 3D printing technology to the genre of mega-cool cakes. -
What If A Smartphone Could Fight Blindness?ozy.com
There's an app that can turn your phone into an optical clinic. -
U.S. firm helped the spyware industry build a potent digital weapon for sale overseaswashingtonpost.com
U.S. firm’s work helped develop “network injection appliances” that are sold to foreign security services. -
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Compared Care helps patients price-shop for medical procedurestechnical.ly
The price-transparency startup, which entered beta in June, allows patients to search medical costs before going under the knife. -
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Reading Literature on Screen: A Price for Convenience?nytimes.com
A forthcoming paper by researchers in France and Norway suggests that there may be some cognitive drawbacks to reading even short works of literature on a screen. -
What divisive ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ cover says about books and readerswashingtonpost.com
Controversy over a new “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” cover says a lot about the book industry and readers -
Sometimes, life is like a box of cacao productswashingtonpost.com
A look at multilevel marketing, the business model that has Wall Street up in arms.