This Week in Tech

This Week in Tech includes Dr. James S Gates in an NPR interview, Rachel Marone talking about biohacking, the art of video games, Occupy vs iris scans, cyberspy bases, and planets moving at the speed of light.

• Interview with Dr. James S. Gates who thinks he may have found computer-like Matrix codes in string theory equations, the telepathic nature of mathematics, and the power of naming  (NPR)
• Being Human 2012 event explores "fresh insights from science and philosophy" (BeingHuman)
• Smart fabrics harvest and output energy (SingularityWeblog)
• Did psychedelics spark the computer revolution? (Guardian)
• Smithsonian declares video games to be art (Gawker)
• Sleep found to be effective way to retain information (Notre Dame News)
• Using virtual worlds to 'soft control' people's movements in the real one (Science Daily)
• Rachel Marone talks biohacking humans in 'Becoming Ourselves' (Rachel Marone) 
• The history of the universe in 10 minutes (Youtube)
• Occupy arrests faced with biometeric iris scans (Village Voice)
• Hebrew University to publish Einstein's complete archive online (Guardian)
• Cashless currency becomes popular in Greece (Guardian)
• Futurist Thomas Frey talks: When death becomes optional (World Future Society)
• Cylon War to rage on Syfy (io9)
• Pentagon creating new-generation cyberweapon that can knock out networks that aren't even connected to the Internet (RT)
• Technological weponization of Homeland Security totally out of control (Alternet)
• According to researchers, ancient Builders created monumental structures that altered sound and mind (Popular Archaeology)
• Fascinating episodic documentary on post-Fukushima Japan: WE ARE ALL RADIOACTIVE (Indiegogo)
• Runaway planets fly through the cosmos at nearly the speed of light  (Physorg)
• James Bamford's popular Wired article on NSA's new massive spying complex (Wired)
• Big Think's follow up: NSA building Skynet in the desert, now what? (Big Think)
• Nichole Daedone explores OM - Orgasmic Meditation at TEDx (TED/Youtube)
• Will your house be underwater by 2100? (io9)
• University of Berkley student invents ChronoZoom, an augmented multimedia timeline (Berkley/Youtube)
• 51% of all total online traffic is non-human (Singularity Hub)
• Body hacking with a magnet in your finger (Gizmodo)
• Rashid Kashani talks about the dark side of virtual worlds (Facebook Video)
• Climate tech fixes to fix Arctic methane  (BBC)
• Living cells printed from a standard Inkjet printer (Science Daily)
• Anarcho-Transhumanisn #1: Feminism + Queering All the Things (Zine Library)
• Nokia patents haptic feedback tattoo (Wired)
• Flying torrent severs to save The Pirate Bay (Torrent Freak)
• Making water out of thin air (Singularity Weblog)