May 2008
11 posts
Collaborative robots for working in icy conditions →
No Cost for Complexity →
“The findings… shed doubt on a creationist criticism of evolution: that adaptation must rapidly slow as creatures grow more complicated, making them less able to adapt to changing conditions.” @wired.com
Lego Difference Engine →
“…I set out to build a working Difference Engine using standard LEGO parts which could compute 2nd or 3rd order polynomials to 3 or 4 digits.” Fair enough. via reddit.com
EASy-related video lectures →
In case you’re missing having lectures: …videos of lectures! Subtopics include: Evolutionary Computation/Swarm Intelligence Robotics Intelligent Agents Machine Learning Complexity Science Artificial Intelligence via reddit.com
Huge hidden biomass lives deep beneath the oceans →
“Life has been found 1.6 kilometres beneath the sea floor, at temperatures reaching 100 °C.” via richarddawkins.net
Meet the biomimetic jumping microrobot →
“Researchers from the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at EPFL are unveiling a novel, grasshopper-inspired jumping robot at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation today in Pasadena, California. The robot weighs a miniscule 7 grams, and can jump 1.4 meters, or more than 27 times its body size — ten times farther for its size and weight than any existing jumping...
Evidence of evolution in the stickleback. →
Thick scales are pigmented in dark brown above or dark purple below. News via http://news.nationalgeographic.com
WatchThe massive Creation Museum opened on Memorial Day, 2007. Complete with robotic Eve living peacefully with cyborg dinosaurs, the 27-million dollar complex is designed to convince people that “science actually confirms biblical history.” at currenttv
“Over and over again, the newspaper lead is that the platypus is...”
– Finally, a sensible bit of writing on the Platypus Genome story: The Platypus Genome on Pharyngula