According to this New York Times article, dogs wag more to one side than another depending on their emotions. If they see something or some one they’re happy about, they wag more to the right. If it’s something they’re less positively disposed towards, they wag more to the left.
From Discover Magazine: The Science Tatoo Emporium. Cool stuff.
This is a humorous short video on the day in the live of a young Oxygen atom.
Produced by Christopher Hendryx as his thesis for the department of Computer Animation at the Ringling College of Art + Design, Oxygen is a really cool 3D animated short featuring Oxygen as our main hero, with various other elements thrown in as supporting characters.
The Robot Hall Of Fame is a Carnegie Mellon University project.
The School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University established the Robot Hall of Fame to honor landmark achievements in robotics technology and the increasing contributions of robots to human endeavors. Two categories of robots are honored in the Robot Hall of Fame: Robots from Science and Robots from Science Fiction
They are currently accepting nominations for new inductee robots. At the head of the pack right now is my personal favorite, Bender Bending Rodriguez from Futurama (yes, I voted for him. Bite my shiny mettal a**.) However, I found this entry quite intriguing. This is an actual mechanical robot automaton from the 18th century that looks like a man, but can draw several complicated drawings and reproduce a few poems. All mechanically. Fascinating! The website at The Franklin Institute has videos of it working and its output, as well as its complex history.
Steven Colbert got a huge number of his audience to vote for his name in the NASA contest to come up with a name for the space station module. While his name was by far the winning vote, NASA has chosen to not only go with the highest-voted name, but to go with the eighth most popular name, Tranquility. The new name was announced on Colbert’s show last night.
But Colbert didn’t go home empty-handed. As a consolation prize, they named a new treadmill after him. It’s the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (COLBERT). I don’t think that’s good enough. Whether you’re a Colbert fan or not, popular vote is the American way. I’m kinda disappointed. I guess there’s a fine line between “Popular Vote” and “Mob Rule”, but to select the eighth most popular vote seems like a sham to me.
This article has all the details.
Aleptu is one guy’s gadget blog. Honestly I foget where I first got this link, but it’s this very cool “collection of collections” in the form of the periodic table. Very clever.