Published on Yahoo! – - It’s a little bit Star Trek replicator and a little bit soylent green, but the concept of downloadable synthetic food is now a little bit closer to science fact than fiction.
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3D print-on-demand pizza, in space
A digital archive of our 21st century selves
Published on Yahoo! – - What is it that defines and represents us as citizens of the United Kingdom in 2013? Curators and experts from six UK libraries have compiled a list of websites they believe best capture that mysterious essence of who we are.
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Alan Turing: Centenary accolades keep coming
Published on Yahoo! – - Almost 60 years since his death, and 100 years on from this birth, due recognition is finally catching up to a man who was ahead of his time.
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#Mashtag, the world’s first ever crowd-sourced beer
Published on Yahoo! – - Independent Scottish beer-maker BrewDog is taking another bold step in its mission to spread the craft beer love by brewing the world’s first ever crowd-sourced beer.
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Alan Turing’s final experiment completed and theory proven in centenary tribute
Published on Yahoo! – - Alan Turing was right: sunflower seed spirals clearly show a mathematical sequence in most cases, according to the results of a mass citizen science experiment.
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Stonehenge – see it, touch it, bounce on it
Published on Yahoo! – - Jump, quite literally, into British prehistory with Jeremy Deller’s Sacrilege, a life-size replica of Stonehenge in the form of a fully operational bouncy castle.
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A day out at the Olympic Park
Published on Yahoo! – - I got a piece of the London2012 action for just £10 with a visit to Stratford’s Olympic Park.
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Citizen scientists honour Alan Turing with sunflowers
Published on Yahoo! – - In the centenary year of the birth of British scientist, mathematician and code-breaker Alan Turing, citizen scientists around the world are growing sunflowers to help complete his final experiment.
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Honouring Alan Turing
Alan Turing was a code-breaker, a computer scientist, a mathematician, an ideas man. But he was persecuted by his government and forgotten by his country. His work on breaking the code of the German naval Enigma machines at Bletchley Park in the 1940s is credited with considerably hastening the end of World War II....
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The Interrobang’s Big 5-0
It is 50 years this month since the typographic symbol, the interrobang, was debuted to the world. The first new punctuation mark for 300 years, it enjoyed a short but dazzling period of success in the 1960s. An interrobang is a combination of a question mark and exclamation point and derives its name from...
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