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Margaret Atwood protests book bans with 'unburnable' copy of 'The Handmaid's Tale'
Watch the author take a flamethrower to a fireproof edition of her dystopian magnum opus.
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Hulu nabs rights to the ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ book sequel
Hulu and MGM have announced they are developing Margaret Atwood's The Testaments for the screen. The Canadian author's sequel to her 1985 novel The Handmaid's Tale is slated to be published later this month, and has already been longlisted for the Booker Prize. According to Time, showrunner Bruce Miller, who developed the Emmy-winning Hulu series based on the first novel, is working on incorporating the author's follow-up.
Early third-generation Kindle software update improves web browser, provides new way to feel e-litist
What better way to read up on your Republic of Gilead lore (whether or not such country allows you to read in the first place) than on a digital screen via firmware that's just a tinge futuristic. Amazon is offering an early preview of software update 3.0.2 for the latest generation of its Kindle reader. It's as simple dragging-and-dropping a file onto your device, jumping through the right menus, and waiting patiently for several minutes. What does it offer? "Web browser and general performance improvements," according to the site, and while the browser did seem a tad snappier, that could very well be a phantasmagoria of our optimism. Still, you do get to show all your friends you've got a newer version, and that's what really matters, right?
Researchers create functioning human lung on a microchip
Researchers at Harvard University have successfully created a functioning, respirating human 'lung' on a chip in a lab. Made using human and blood vessel cells and a microchip, the translucent lung is far simpler in terms of observation than traditional, actual human lungs (for obvious reasons), in a small convenient package about the size of a pencil eraser. The researchers have demonstrated its effectiveness and are now moving toward showing its ability to replicate gas exchange between lung cells and the bloodstream. Down the road a bit more, the team hopes to produce other organs on chips, and hook them all up to the already operational heart on a chip. And somewhere in the world, Margaret Atwood and her pigoons are rejoicing, right? Here's to the future. Video description of the device is below.
