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• MLB.com levels baseball’s playing field
• The 1,350-hp, jet-turbine Beetle really flies
• Phew! The best apocalyptic near-misses.
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• Sufjan Stevens’ avalanche of odes to Illinois
• A mecha makeover for Japanese monster flicks
• Online craft faire – Linux blankie, anyone?
• Meet your next favorite game guru
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• Monk ebusiness
• Superheroes go ape for Stan Lee
• Lessig examines Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth
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HYPERTELESCOPE
n. A space-based telescope that would use mirror arrays spanning many miles to simulate observatories too massive to build. Designed to examine planets 10 or more light-years away.

WHITE SPACE
n. A potentially lucrative market for which no products or services yet exist – because nobody has thought to make people desire those hypothetical products or services.

QUANTUM MALWARE
n. While prototypes of quantum computers struggle to make even rudimentary calculations, early efforts to build an ultrafast quantum Internet have already spawned the concept of quantum malware.

BLACK HAWKS
n. pl. Helicopter parents with an especially militant mentality. They hover over their kids’ lives through college, waging war to give them unfair advantages.

– Jonathon Keats (jargon@wiredmag.com)

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