25 years ago 2010-12-16
1985 ARGOS Summer catalogue : 25 Years Ago! I remember poring over the details of those calculators for days on end.
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1985 ARGOS Summer catalogue : 25 Years Ago! I remember poring over the details of those calculators for days on end.
Map of Metal : This is a lot of fun to play with. Metalheads love a subgenre.
John Hicklenton R.I.P. : Hicklenton blew my mind when I was a teenager, with his wild, hyper-stylized frantic run on Nemesis. Utterly absorbing and inspirational.
Solar powered hornets: a special structure in its abdomen traps the sun's rays, and contains specialised energy-harvesting pigment.
Quadrotor ball juggling : Autonomous drone helicopter playing keepsie-upsies with a ping-pong ball
In my piece yesterday, about my blog on last.fm I didn't link correctly to the article . Fixed now.
Wasps punish fake fighters : Science demonstrates that wasps made up to look tougher than they are receive punishment beatings.
Salamanders are amazing creatures : Could they really be photoysynthesising symbiotically?
It's Not 50/50 : Pigeons outperform humans at optimising the Monty Hall problem
The man who guarded the secret of the Beatles : David Hepworth knows his onions.
Male fish in Mexico sports sexy 'moustache' : Scientists have measured the way female Mexican mollies (Poecilia sphenops) respond to males with varying top lip furniture, and discovered a clear preference for a moustache.
Ultima V running on TI calculators : Presumably they already have nethack.
Anyone want to buy a house in Bristol ? It's blue, has a garden, and handily positioned for access to IKEA.
Mosquito-shooting lasers : low-powered laser packing, motion-tracking killbot
A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages : A blog post that actually made me LOL.
Ocean robot 'plans experiments' : The Gulper AUV, using an embedded software engine called 'T-Rex', can navigate autonomously, and make planning decisions about how best to schedule its task list of experiments.