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by Tracy R. Walsh Modern-day Dadaists have transformed 3D printing mishaps into art: The “digital detritus” of computer imagery gone wrong provided the foundation of glitch art, which celebrates the wild, uncontrollable pieces of an otherwise ordered artificial world, even if it was always confined to a screen. As 3D printers try to replicate the … Continue reading Glitch Art

They’ve arrived: In his living room in San Diego right now, Cosmo Wenman has two life-sized reproductions of the British Museum’s Head of a Horse of Selene, a magnificently life-like sculpture with nostrils flared that dates to around 432 B.C. The original in Britain is made of marble, about three feet end-to-end. Wenman’s copies, created with an … Continue reading Print-At-Home Sculptures

Litigation by patent trolls, often called Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs), has exploded in recent years: Felix Salmon explains why this is a major problem: Go to any technology conference these days, and you’re likely to find VCs who say that there are entire sectors they refuse to invest in, just because the waters are so troll-infested. Google and … Continue reading Attack Of The Patent Trolls

Friday on the Dish, Andrew sounded off on the news of chemical weapons use in Syria, questioned why we don’t call modified AR-15s weapons of mass destruction when they inflict just as much death as a pressure cooker, and noticed another step toward Greater Israel in a dodgy visa law. Elsewhere, we further investigated that … Continue reading The Weekly Wrap

Ian Steadman considers the copyright implications of 3-D printed food: Imagine yourself in twenty years sitting down in your kitchen and wanting a glass of cola and a hamburger. You could download Coca-Cola’s classic recipe to go with a McDonald’s Big Mac, but you could also download that extra-caffeinated cola someone’s hacked onto the server … Continue reading A Future Without Secret Recipes?

Gun parts aren’t the only pieces of printable contraband: [Some people are] putting 3D-printing technology to an entirely new end: Getting high. Which is to say, we’ve come a decent way since the MakerBong first showed up on Thingiverse, the digital-design hub. That was three years ago. It was by all accounts the first user-created specs for printable paraphernalia, … Continue reading Print Your Own Paraphernalia

by Gwynn Guilford

Today on the Dish, Chait guessed at Romney's veep pick, Barro explained Romney's rock-and-a-hard-place positioning on social welfare and private equity, and Matthew Continetti lamented Romney's inability to define his candidacy. After Team Obama worked the tax-avoidance angle effectively in ads yesterday, both campaigns got dirty again today. Larison emphasized that Romney's still under neocon sway, Weigel saw the upside of politi-bickering and Romney was – wait for it – disingenuous on his ad campaign. 

A reader called for more constructive optimism on coal usage, a timeline traced our path to collective forgetting and Barney discussed his favorite GOP colleague. And while Marc Lynch marveled at Islam's generational divide, the US government screwed sick Afghans.

In Olympic coverage, Travis Waldron hailed the amazing performance of US women in the London Games, Persian history contributed to Iran's Olympic wrestling and weightlifting conquest, and a former Olympican explained track and field's great equalizer. A reader reminisced about Abdul Baser Wasiqi's moving run, and while Ian Johnson explored the Olympics "arms race," Liel Leibovitz examined the funding shortage behind Israel's Olympics flameout. The Dish met Zoich, the blue, furry, crowned amphibian of the people – at least until it became a marketing trojan horse – a Google Olympics tribute doodle elicited calls of racism and Big Tobacco got crafty about Olympics marketing.

Austin Frakt thought hospitals wouldn't reform, robots grew creepier and Sady Doyle hoped for an end to the MPDG. Men talked nipples while dolphins gripped genitally. Birthday FOTD here (it's Andrew's!), sarcasm didn't translate well and Landon Palmer rued Rotten Tomatoes. Meanwhile, readers got worked up about the use of "literally," Robin Hanson wanted to bring fun back and Hathos alert here. And VFYW here, MHB here and that friend who takes games waaay too seriously here.

(Photo: Renaud Lavillenie of France competes during the Men's Pole Vault Final on August 10. By Alex Livesey/Getty Images)

The rest of the week after the jump:

by Gwynn Guilford Today on the Dish, just as Andrew was going dark, Curiosity alighted on Mars. After a neo-Nazi shooter killed six at a Sikh temple on Sunday, many readers praised the aplomb of Sikh-Americans in the face of violence and bigotry, while others picked up on an eerie resemblance. In politics, Romney's undecided … Continue reading The Daily Wrap

A reader writes:

The photo that you had up of the little penguins wearing protective sweaters was wonderful. I just read about a similar man-made project for hermit crabs. There's a shell shortage and they're getting desperate: