Global Art Sci Announcements

Friedrich Kittler died yesterday, 18 October 2011, in Berlin.

"Nobody listens to radio. What loudspeakers or headsets provide for

their users is always just radio programming, never radio itself. Only
in emergencies, when broadcasts are interrupted, announcers’ voices
dry up or stations drift away from their proper frequencies, are there
any moments at all to hear what radio listening could be about." -
Friedrich Kittler

http://www.spiegel.de/kultur

 

Using the Force on Cancer

It’s a tough life for a cancer cell. First, there’s all that exhausting, uncontrolled dividing. Then, there’s the peer pressure created by a cell’s rapidly multiplying neighbors. Not to mention being squished by the abundant fluid that accumulates as inflammation spreads in the surrounding tissue.

Wiring A Single-Molecule Circuit

A single-molecule electrical circuit, in which organic compounds substituting for components such as wires, transistors, and rectifiers are all covalently bonded, just took a step closer to reality, according to a new report (J. Am. Chem. Soc., DOI: 10.1021/ja111673x). In addition to being exceedingly small—a major goal in electronics—such a circuit could have higher computing power than current silicon-based devices.

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