by | Jan 21, 2015 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from Mashable 100 humanoid robots perform synchronized dance routine in Tokyo One hundred humanoid robots performed a synchronized dance routine in Tokyo on Monday. Each of the one hundred ‘Robi’ robots weighs just 2.2 pounds and stands just a little over...
by | Jan 20, 2015 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from TechWorld Japanese androids hold news conference, chat with baby droids The female robots introduced a pair of tabletop conversation robots, CommU and Sota by Tim Hornyak (IDG News Service) If you find lifelike robots unnerving, try attending a news conference...
by | Jan 12, 2015 | Culture Music Art
from The New York Times Taylor Negron, of ‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High,’ Dies at 57 By DAVE ITZKOFF Taylor Negron, a comedian and actor who described his style as “California Gothic” and who brought a funereal, straight-faced sensibility to a career’s worth of...
by | Jan 10, 2015 | Culture Music Art
from Paste Magazine The Internet Arcade Releases More Than 2,000 MS-DOS Games By Jeff Pearson Back in November of last year, the Internet Archive launched a digital archive of more than 900 famous arcade games to be played for free online, titled the Internet Arcade....
by | Jan 8, 2015 | Culture Music Art
from Nautilus The Strange Inevitability of Evolution Good solutions to biology’s problems are astonishingly plentiful. BY PHILIP BALL / ILLUSTRATION BY JON HAN Is the natural world creative? Just take a look around it. Look at the brilliant plumage of tropical birds,...
by | Dec 28, 2014 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from The New Yorker The Age of Asteroids BY JONATHAN BLITZER A view of the asteroid Lutetia from the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft. CREDITIMAGE FROM THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY Brian May, the longtime guitarist of the rock band Queen, is also an...
