

VIDEO: Get Spooked With Local Horror Flick
Some of us have been celebrating Halloween all weekend. But if you’re not bored of scares yet, check out the new horror short from…
Movies You Missed 10: Attack the Block
This week in movies you missed: Inner-city kids fight aliens in a summer ’11 movie that was not a remake, sequel, prequel or adaptation. What…
Patrick Dougherty’s Sculptures ‘Inclined’ to Come Down
I miss them already. The strange-looking, twisty, teepee-esque sculptures, a grouping of botanical buddies that lean slightly, as if whispering secrets to each other. “So…
Democratic Mayoral Debates for Dummies
If Burlington voters thought they had killed off instant runoff voting once and for all, think again. It’s alive and well in the Democratic primary…
What’s The Deal With the Pumpkin On the Cover?
Is this week’s cover pumpkin real or computer generated? Well, it’s a little bit of both. This year’s tech issue happened to fall on the…
Engineering Evangelist
John Cohn turns kids on to science with robots, rap and a pickle electrocutor
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Stephen Frankie Daniel, 21, was caught robbing a gas station convenience store in Snellville, Ga., by police Lt. B.W. Brown, who happened…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Life is not just a diurnal property of large interesting vertebrates,” poet Gary Snyder reminds us in his book The Practice…
Scaling the Firewall
Vermont’s Pwnie Express sells a powerful new tool for cyber-security experts – and hackers
Ready, Set, Play
Dev Jana offers sound advice to Vermont’s growing game-design community
Flying with “Vid” [244]
10/23/11: Pirogi-making pilot David “Vid” Miller takes Eva on an evening flight in a 1978 Cessna 172N that flies out of the Burlington International Airport…
Letters to the Editor
Story Behind the Ad I pity Miss Johnson’s lack of vision [Feedback, “Irony on the Menu?,” October 19]. Her letter last week shows that when…
Q&A: University of Vermont Robotics Researcher Josh Bongard
How and why did life on earth evolve in the myriad ways it did? Would creatures evolve in the same ways, and with the same…






