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MakerBot's 3-D Printers Let Consumers Dream Up Prototypes Of Pretty Much Anything. But Do We Need More Plastic? | Fast Company
In Pettis’s view, the Thing-O-Matic is a particularly potent example of a “meta tool”—a tool to make other tools. “It’s like getting a superpower,” he says.
My story on MakerBot for Fast Company.
“A prehistoric mobile toolkit buried in milky creek sediments in central Texas shows humans first settled North America 2,500 years earlier than previously thought. The finding could shatter the prevailing theory of paleo-American settlement, which holds that people left northeast Asia via a land bridge through the Bering Strait and settled the continent 13,000 years ago.”
Early Texans, y’all.
Also discussed on Science Friday.
