Making the Micropipette

Also: Cellular reprogramming, pneumatic launch systems, terraforming Mars, and more

Making the Micropipette

by Alexandra Balwit

The micropipette only exists thanks to a long line of scientists and businessmen whose creative iterations, savvy deals, and expensive legal battles shaped the course of modern science.

Cellular reprogramming, pneumatic launch systems, and terraforming Mars

by Jason Crawford

In December, I went to the Foresight Institute’s Vision Weekend 2023 in San Francisco. I had a lot of fun talking to a bunch of weird and ambitious geeks about the glorious abundant technological future. Here are few things I learned about

Why Patents? The History and Evidence

by Evan Zimmerman

Jefferson himself, who called feared the monopoly of patents, eventually came around, so much so that he helped author the Patent Act of 1790 alongside John Ruggles. Jefferson even came to call patents a “gift of social law” that “caused a spring of invention.”

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