The Archives
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Experiments, Music, New Scientist, Portfolio, Video, Writing
THIS GAMIFIED LIFE
I have a feature out in the latest issue of New Scientist on turning life into a videogame. Much has been written on the topic, hopefully this piece adds a bit of evolutionary biology and psychology to the discussion. I made a Zero-Punctuation/Common Craft-style video to accompany the story. It’s a fun, if not time-consuming, [...]
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New Scientist, Portfolio, Science, Video, Writing
EXOSKELETON
Catching up on blog posting…here’s another video, this one part of a recent story on a new robotic exoskeleton meant to help people with spinal cord injuries walk again:
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New Scientist, Portfolio, Science, Video, Writing
MOSS EXPLOSION AND THE SWINGING ROBOT
My latest science video round-up for New Scientist is online now. Check it out here. The song is one I repurposed from a while back. Here’s another recent New Scientist piece on teaching virtual characters to walk.
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New Scientist, Portfolio, Science, Video, Writing
SEPTEMBER ROUND-UP
10.12.09 | Permalink | 2 CommentsI know we’re a third of the way through October already, but things have been busy! Without further ado, here’s what I did for New Scientist last month: Smart Homes (500 words) Twisted Molecules (350 words) Pass the Carrots (500 words) Mythbuster’s Challenge video (30 seconds, accompanies this interview by Peter Aldhous) Jupiter’s Icy Affair [...]
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MIT, Press, Science
FROM MY SENSEI
Kind praise from my MIT advisor Tom Levenson on his Inverse Square Blog–this post seems to have inspired health-care-debate-link-love from Bioephemera and Cosmic Variance. Thanks everybody! And have you picked up your copy of Newton and the Counterfeiter yet?
HOT OFF THE TWEET
Digging Strangeloop's Duasi: http://t.co/Q4nTshvM on the Dropping Gems vol. 2 collection #MERCH
My first album, The Ownership Society, is available for download here or, for a CD go here. To listen to a few tracks, go here. Thanks!
My second album (sort of), Insufficient Complexity, is now available on a pay-what-you-like basis. It's completely different from The Ownership Society.
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MacGregor Campbell is a San Francisco-based science/tech journalist and maker of weird sounds.
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