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Rainbow Roads: A Cycling App That Spray Paints Bumps and Potholes

This bike automates complaining about to your city about the state of the roads.
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
2 min read

$75 to Walk Again: Tackling Asia’s Prosthetics Crisis

Instead of getting inappropriate secondhand prosthetics from the West, this charity is making their own bespoke ones in Laos.
Lindsey Kennedy
2 min read

This Animal Assassin is Saving Endangered Wildlife

How to snap, bait, trap, and ensnare in the name of conservation.
Bonnie Tsui
5 min read

Going Up

Meet Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, father of the space elevator.
Duncan Geere
3 min read

How Ants Will Lead Us to New Antibiotics

You ant seen nothing yet
Alexander Sehmer
2 min read

Making Scents

What live theater can gain from catering to our olfactory systems.
Jenny Adamthwaite
2 min read

We Made Some Rappers Collaborate With a Rap-Writing AI and Got a Glimpse of the Future of Pop Music

Can a computer truly ever replace human creativity in pop music?
Dave Fawbert
7 min read

The World’s Grandest Canals

Getting from A to B by water.
Duncan Geere
3 min read

Greece’s Tourism Startups Find a Way Through the Crisis

In the wake of the Eurozone crisis, startups in the Greek capital focusing on tourism are facing an uncertain future.
Vas Panagiotopoulos
2 min read

Gone Gone Gopher

Today we "browse the web," but we almost ended up "digging around in Gopherspace."
Richard Baguley
4 min read