Alt-week 8.11.12: Robo-billies, quasicrystals and radioactive art

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By James TrewAug 11, 2012, 12:00 pm124 pts
Alt-week peels back the covers on some of the more curious sci-tech stories from the last seven days. It's not like we're trying to out-weird ourselves, it just, somehow, keeps happening. At least one of this week's offerings (we'll leave it to you to figure out which) will possibly be the creepiest thing we…

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