DARPA Cheetah Sets Speed Record for Legged Robots
I, for one, welcome our new four-legged robotic overlords!
What a dog does when it’s cold
Wunderbar! Miniatur Wunderland
Immediately adding this to the itinerary of my next European vacation, and you should too! Wow.
Address is Approximate
Nice! Google Street View stop motion animation short made as a personal project by director Tom Jenkins. Read more about it here
Address Is Approximate from The Theory on Vimeo.
Watch starfish flee an icy finger of death
This clip is from the BBC show, Frozen Planet -- Pretty magical. Looks like something straight out of Harry Potter or the X-Men... if they had any reason to attack starfish and sea urchins.
"In winter, the air temperature above the sea ice can be below -20C, whereas the sea water is only about -1.9C. Heat flows from the warmer sea up to the very cold air, forming new ice from the bottom. The salt in this newly formed ice is concentrated and pushed into the brine channels. And because it is very cold and salty, it is denser than the water beneath.
The result is the brine sinks in a descending plume. But as this extremely cold brine leaves the sea ice, it freezes the relatively fresh seawater it comes in contact with. This forms a fragile tube of ice around the descending plume, which grows into what has been called a brinicle."
Spare Time Box
Have you recently experienced missing time? I've been finding it by the bundle. It was starting to clutter up my worksearch space, so I came up with a solution.
Once again, necessity is the mother of invention. You're welcome, planet Earth!
Time Box is currently available for the low low price of just $19.95!
(Limit 10 per customer)
Martin Luther King Jr. Last speech. 1968