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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.

You bought it? You own it; don't let esoteric screwheads take it away from you. 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.

Microbiologists have discovered a simple kind of farming in the simplest social organisms�cooperative amoeba.

A story about cheating in middle-eastern camel racing�and by the way, the jockeys are robots. Buried lede, or simply a case of the unevenly-distributed future?

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.

Tearing down tens of thousands of horoscopes, David McCandless seeks the heart of the Zodiac not in the stars, but in the word-clouds.

Reverse the polarity on sneaker piracy and globalization, and you get something like Chinese sneakers hacked into hover shoes. Video after the jump.