This Week in Tech

In This Week in Tech we check out the next paradigm shift: going from sustainable to evolveable, graphene captures light, NYC gets its Gamification on, Japan to boom with renewable energy, Kevin Kelly on the "Global Collectivist Society," RedLetterMedia decimates Prometheus, 3D printing the human body, Singularity University parties up, conscious stars vs dark matter, the gigapixel camera, the importance of being playful, and Alan Turing turns 100!

• 100th Birthday of Alan Turing! (io9)
• Evolving a City: interview with David Sloan Wilson [audio] (NPR)
• Half in the Bag vs Prometheus [video] (RedLetterMedia)
  
• Kevin Kelly writes "Global Collectivist Society is Coming Online" (Wired)
• Google says US government takedown requests have doubled in last six months (Gigaom)
  
• What happens to 3 out of 4 girls after leafing through a fashion mag for 3 minutes? (UpWorthy)
  
• Blade Runner sequence animated in watercolor [video] (ComicsAlliance)
• Singularity University to help "geeks get caught up, and working on problems that might be a little more important than building yet another tablet computer." (Forbes)
• Sustainable to evolvable / A call for paradigm (ARUP)
• Purposeless Play: John Cage as Gamifier (Gamification)
  
• Stonehenge was a monument marking unification of Britain (ScienceDaily)
• Candel flames contain millions of tiny diamonds (PhysOrg)
• Water bouncing on a hydrophobic nanotube (ScienceDump)
  
• Gamification 2012 Summit NYC recap (Gamification)
• UC Davis official's rare photo of bee sting captures 1st place award (SacBee)
  
• Watch TSA Nude Body Scanners Get Defeated (YouTube)
  
• How transparency will end tyranny (IEET)
• Photographing the Gulf of Mexico: Before and after the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill (SCPR)
  
• Scientists use ‘molecular sex’ to create first genetically evolved semiconductor parts (io9)
• Acxiom Corp: The 'faceless organization that knows everything about you' (TheWeek)
  
• 10 Mind-Blowing Discoveries This Week (AlterNet)
• Why Our Brains Are Prone to Addiction -- A Neuroscientist Explains (AlterNet)
• Japan about to experience Huge Renewable Energy Boom! (DailyKos)
  
• Malware author taunts security researchers with built-in chat (BoingBoing)
  
• Synthetic Sociology and the Human Computer (Wired)
• I Want to Know Where Love Is: First Brain Map of Love and Desire (ScienceDaily)
  
• Gulf Spill animal mutations (WorldTruth)
  
• Is Humanity Accelerating Towards… Apocalypse? or Utopia? (IEET)
  
• Michel Foucault's architectural underestimation (Funambulist)
  
• Drone Artists/Hackers detained (Technoccult)
• The psychedelic Nobel Prize that wasn’t (BerkelyBlog)
• 680,000 wells hold waste across US -- with unknown risks (MSNBC)
  
• The importance of being playful (SeriouslyMovie)
  
• How 3D Printing The Human Body Works [Infographic] (BitRebels)
  
• Graphene can capture light (LaboratoryEquipment)
  
• US drones deeply unpopular around the world (Salon)
• Your brain on illusions (NYTimes)
  
• Dawkins in furious row with EO Wilson over theory of evolution (Guradian)
• The Neuroscience of Habits: How they form and how to change them (ScientificAmerican)
• US seizing dino bones (Yahoo)
• Gas pipeline stirs big debate on both sides of the Hudson (NYTimes)
• Innovation on the Edges [video] (Edge)
  
• Gut-on-a-chip technology mimics organs in lab (SingularityHub)
• "Solutions" to the Fermi Paradox (ContraryBrin)
• Resse Jones talks 'singularities' [video] (Vimeo)
• Drones At Home Raise Fear Of Surveillance Society (NPR)
• Conscious stars vs dark matter theory (Centauri-Dreams)
• Extensive water in Mars' interior (PhysOrg)
• Scientists Outsmart the Immune System to Better Match People with Organs (PopSci)
• Minority Report really did predict the future (io9)
• US opens new areas of Gulf of Mexico to drilling (PhysOrg)
• Researchers Create Gigapixel Camera (LaboratoryEquipment)
• How To Build Your Own LEGO Turing Machine (Wired)
  
• Peter Norvig: The 100,000-student classroom [video] (TED)
• Synthetic biology and biology's master programmers (TechReview)
• Mathematical proof that the media Is sexist and bad at math (Cracked)
• DefCon: 20 Years of Hackers, Hijinks and Snooping Feds (Wired)
• Stephen Hawking's new CERN Lecture: Spontaneous Creation of Universes [video] (YouTube)