When two chatbots discuss Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, it's Waiting for Godot meets the Turing test, in the stagecraft of Annie Dorsen. Video after the jump.

The trailer for the long-awaited, much-maligned Duke Nukem Forever may be pixelated, but it tries hard�too hard�to pull no punches. Warning: although blurred, some bits are not safe for work. Video after the jump.

A Data-viz lab headquartered in the "mythical birthplace of HAL 9000" produces both eye-popping IMAX animations and rigorous modelings of scientific data. In fact, these things are one and the same. Video after the jump.

Remember how we used to say that when the machines start reproducing, we'll know we're in trouble"? Well maybe it's time for a gut-check on that one. Video after the jump.

Harnessing the piezoelectric effect, researchers at Cornell propose a wind-power generator that has more in common with rustling leaves than airplane rotors. Videos after the jump.

In an age of ever-more fantastic gadgets, it's becoming received wisdom that we're all cyborgs now. But as implant hacker Lepht Anonym reminds us, the original vision of the term was dangerous and feral. Videos after the jump.

Trapped in a tiny infinity, unaware of its extent, the protagonist of math doodler Vi Hart's drawn dilemma faces a struggle as existential as it is mathematical. Video after the jump.

Enda O'Donoghue's oil paintings of digital snapshots explore the mixture of intense self-regard and ephemerality that characterizes imagery in the Facebook era�and even the process of painting them looks like a glitchy upload. Video after the jump.

A giant aircraft, a wandering writer's enigmatic death, and a cyborg with can-do spirit�today's hits in the history of science and technology.

What Instagram did with Polaroid aesthetics, iSupr8 wants to do with the mid-century home movie format. It's an example of the peculiar flavor of Internet-era image nostalgia, expressed in app form. Video after the jump.