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Just announced on the RepRap blog: The Foresight Institute has announced its Kartik M. Gada Humanitarian Innovation Prize to design and build a better RepRap. There is an interim prize of $20,000, and a grand prize of $80,000. I am particularly excited about these specific aims of the contest: :: Print at least three different materials, including [...]

2009 AAAS/Science Dance Your Ph.D. Contest It started with the purest form of scientific communication-research papers that supposedly leave little room for more than one interpretation, but was transformed into modern dance, a medium in which individual interpretation is the essence. The results are in from the Science Dance Match-Up Challenge. From 17 April and [...]