Shinya Tsukamoto made his first film using grainy black-and-white 16mm filmstock, a few thousand dollars and a bunch of stuff he found in a junkyard. Now credited as the seminal “cyberpunk” movie, Tetsuo:The Iron Man sent a shock wave through the Japanese film industry and soon became a worldwide cult sensation. Since his debut, Tsukamoto has become one of the Japanese film industry’s few true independents, occasionally working as a director-for-hire in order to self-finance his personal films. more ›

Bio-editor may very well be the next cross specialization after the astrobiologist, the geophysicist, or the stripper/french maid. Harvard University liberals have constructed the world's first bacterial printing press capable of printing out mats the width of a single bacteria. more ›