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Franklin Roosevelt
(x-posted to politicartoons)
Check out Target's new "Franklin Roosevelt" (talking) action figure:
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Python programming question
A question for those of you who know Python ( Read more... ) -
Ringach ceasing primate research due to threats
(x-posted to neuroscience, _scientists_)
Some of you are likely familiar with Dario Ringach, whose work with macaques has been a boon to our understanding of receptive fields in visual cortex. Unfortunately, it looks like he's been intimidated out of continuing with this research:
From here and here:
The constant calls, the people frightening his children, and the ( Read more... ) -
SpaceX CEO's talk at Mars Society
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk gave a rather fascinating talk at this year's Mars Society Conference, where he talked about his plans for the Dragon capsule, his long-term vision for private spaceflight, and his hopes of eventually helping to enable Mars colonization. An article at the Space Review, Dragon Uncloaked, gave a nice summary of the talk. Here's ( Read more... ) -
Cockroaches... in... space!
I thought this quote from an news piece in Nature about the experimental organisms on-board Bigelow Aerospace's space station prototype was pretty neat:
Bigelow Aerospace tested a number of different cockroaches and found that the Madagascar hissing roach, which can grow to more than 7.5 centimetres long and can weigh as much as 24 grams, proved ( Read more... ) -
GP2X: I want one
After reading the links below, I think I very much want to get a GP2X. Basically, it's a Linux-based $190 handheld with a couple of 240 MHz ARM processors with TV-out and an SD card slot for storage (up to 4GB). It also has a $50 breakout box which lets you plug in USB devices. People have mostly used it for USB game controllers and networking, but ( Read more... ) -
Bill Nye, Lindy Hop Guy
Last night I was at PBDA (Stompy Jones from San Francisco was playing), and noticed that one of the Lindy Hoppers looked a lot like Bill Nye the Science Guy. I'd noticed the the similarity before, but it really registered yesterday. To top it off, he was a pretty good Lindy Hopper ( Read more... )
