* Photo: Fox * Blank Laptop n. A laptop with its hard drive scrubbed clean to keep customs agents from perusing personal or business data. Some firms prefer traveling employees to access data only via a safe Internet connection.
Subprime Carbon n. Epithet for commodities like coal that are expected to lose value when governments put a price on carbon emissions. Calling carbon subprime, Al Gore is urging investors to dump environmentally irresponsible holdings.
Three-Parent Embryo n. The result of a procedure in which the nuclear DNA of an embryo is implanted into a donated egg stripped of all but its mitochondrial DNA. The technique could prevent inheritance of mitochondrial diseases like muscular dystrophy.
Sleevefacing v. Posing for a photo with your head or other body part hidden behind an LP jacket to impersonate a rock star. Masters of the form orchestrate elaborate tableaus.
- — Jonathon Keats (jargon@wired.com)*
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