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_What you might have missed on the Internet today._ * How Mike Brown "killed Pluto":http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/2011/11/03/book-review-how-i-killed-pluto-by-mike-brown/#comment-94 * The History of mobile tech in "6...

What you might have missed on the Internet today.

  • This may be written in Russian, but it turns out Soviet Era tech journals were pretty awesome.

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  • Was anybody else wondering what to do with their 3D printer?

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Top Image: NASA’s robotic lander prototype hovers autonomously during its second free-flight test at the Marshall Center, via (NASA/MSFC)