Mad Science at Burning Man

Technology

Experimentation copulates with art in the ultimate open-access laboratory.

by Dan Glass

published online August 27, 2007

The 22nd annual Burning Man festival begins today in Nevada's beautiful and forbidding Black Rock desert, and, as in other years, it will include thousands of fans of science and uncountable science-related art projects. What kind of experiments are going on at the famous art-and-hedonism festival?

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