Science & Technology – Week of 03.23.14

3D-Printed Skull Replacement Transplant a World First for Netherlands Patient
International Business Times | 26 March 2014
A 22-year-old woman has received the world’s first full 3D-printed skull replacement transplant in a 23-hour operation at University Medical Center Utrecht…

Humanity’s Open-Source Automated Precision Farming Machine
Farmbot
Grow a community that produces free and open-source hardware plans, software, data, and documentation enabling everyone to build and operate a farming machine…

Russian Officials Switch from iPads to Samsung Over Security Concerns
The Guardian | 26 March 2014
Telecoms minister says new Samsung tablets are specially protected to work with confidential information…

Space Station Arrival Delayed for US-Russian Crew
AP | 26 March 2014
A software glitch on a Russian spacecraft heading to the International Space Station has delayed the arrival of three astronauts…

The Brutal Ageism of Tech
New Republic | 23 March 2014
Years of experience, plenty of talent, completely obsolete?

You’re Trying To Sell A Drug House
The Market Ticker | 25 March 2014
You know this is where they’re going, right?

FDA Considers Approval of Genetically Modified Babies
Natural News | 24 March 2014
As mainstream society inches increasingly further away from the natural order of things…

Forget GMOs, Scientists are Creating Bionic Plants
Earth Heal | 20 March 2014
Call it the rise of the nanobionic super-plants: Researchers at MIT are giving plants super powers…