Remember Hitchbot, the hitchhiking robot mentioned in a previous post? A few days ago it was vandalized in Philadelphia and its creators, a couple of professors in Canada, have decided it is damaged beyond repair. Meanwhile, an unlikely “surveillance video” … Continue reading
Comedy Central’s Key and Peele (whose program is in its final season, to the regret of many) show what life might be like if there were a little more justice in the world and the best teachers were valued as … Continue reading
A possible to reason to reconsider moving to Florida: Link: https://youtu.be/7Qp_bUYPrTg This particular alligator does need to practice the dismount. by … Continue reading
(Update: Unfortunately, the hitchhiking robot has been irreparably damaged by vandals in Philadelphia. More in this later post.) In an interesting social experiment (described in an Associated Press report by Collin Binkley), a couple of Canadian researchers have launched a … Continue reading
One more thing about the politics of the historic June 26 Supreme Court decision and then I’ll try to shut up about it for a while: By early May of this year, several weeks before the Supreme Court decision, Gallup … Continue reading
Maybe they know better and they’re just saying this stuff to get on YouTube? Link: https://youtu.be/kyhCOPh48ew In fairness, a lot of people probably did answer the questions correctly besides the vacationing Italian and were simply left out of the video, … Continue reading
Don’t be like these dummies: Link: https://youtu.be/6o6pvrBNLow by … Continue reading
Yesterday’s video from NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day website (link) is a short one produced by the National Spaced Society to remind people what’s coming very soon: the first flyby of Pluto. (The images of Pluto shown are of … Continue reading
I suspect most people remember their first experience driving in San Francisco, probably for the same reason they remember scary scenes in The Shining. Some hills are so steep you wonder how your car is holding onto the road. Walking … Continue reading
Last week’s New York Times Magazine had an article (link) by Adrian Chen about a strange new Russian plot. It seems that Russia has, no kidding, deployed an army of Internet trolls tasked among other things with making Putin look … Continue reading