Gendy Alimurung

1. Beating-heart bypass surgery. Guided by a doctor’s hands, a robot named “Zeus” performs microsurgery on a 63-year-old man through a “keyhole” incision. 2. Artificial blood substitutes. Hemopure, developed by the U.S. biotech firm BioPure from purified cow blood, is approved for use in South Africa and will likely win......

URB positions itself at the center by aspiring to encompass the whole: URB as field guide, URB as chroniclers of ”tribal past“ and ”techno future,“ URB as lifestyle purveyors and happy advisers. Exhibit A: the ”What URB likes“ section -- Rav‘n Party Light glowsticks, Boca vegetarian sausages. Exhibit B: a......

Photo by Anne Fishbein Mrrrrreowh. That’s the sound of my cat in heat. One hundred and two degrees of it, and rising with the ambient. Normally, Los Angeles bites. Normally, one could avoid the suckage by never leaving one’s building. But this year brings a whole new meaning to the......

In a spacious, loft-style room overlooking Marina del Rey, a woman instructs two recent college grads in the proper way to fill a small plastic bag with seawater. This is no ordinary bag, but a clear, sealable device called a “whirl-pak,” used to collect samples of ocean water to be......

On the eve of the longest day of the year, twist together wooden branches into the shape of a man and place a piece of foil-wrapped bread inside it. Throw the man into a fiery pit, remove the toasted bread from the charred remains, distribute among friends and eat. It‘s......

When I was a sixth-grader, I loved a nerd named Brian. Using an empty box of See’s Candies, a piece of string and a shoebox with a cut-out rectangular hole, he constructed the world‘s first laptop. The keyboard was drawn with a green felt-tip Magic Marker. Brian took his ”computer“......