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Don't say, "too bad it's not an iPhone app." I mean, it's free! It's fun! It's on the World Wide Web! News of the death of which has been greatly exaggerated.

From Steve Martin to the shield of Achilles, considering the relationship of image and text in a networked age.

The obligatory holiday post scares up some hair-raising ways to roast a bird.

"We were forcing acoustic guitars through a cassette player, and what came out the other end was electric as hell."

With the power of massively concentrated sunlight, you could teach those giant ants in the old scifi thriller Them! a thing or two.

From London's district for poor writers, a maker of highly specialized tools comes calling.

A study of the microbes in the guts of our closest relatives gives new meaning to the gut-check, finding that the mix of bacteria in our gastrointestinal tract is determined not solely by diet, but by evolution as well.

Two very different sets of assumptions about what books are and what reading them in a networked age should be like.

Day by day, the hacks are getting more interesting.

A slime mold attacking bacteria in a petri dish? Marbling on the endpapers of a rare first edition of Galileo's Starry Messenger? Methane storms on one of the Jovian moons? Answer after the jump.