by Leroy Hurt | Dec 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Wall Street Journal: Schaft Inc.’s robot dominated the two-day Pentagon Robotics Challenge Trials this weekend in Florida, where 16 teams competed at the NASCAR race track south of Miami for one of eight slots to secure more federal development funds.…Schaft,...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Business Insider: Kalashnikov [inventor of the AK-47] had mixed feelings about his success. “I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work — for example a lawnmower,” he said on a visit to...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Newgeography.com: Living well should not be about where one lives, but how one lives, and for whom. Families can thrive in many places, but these bearers of the next generation are not the primary focus of much of the urbanist community. I am referring here to...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Drudge and The Independent: Some of the world’s most eminent scientists have severely criticised the arguments used by some influenza researchers who are trying to make the H5N1 bird-flu virus more dangerous to humans by repeatedly infecting laboratory...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Drudge and Mail Online: A protein found in all living cells called NAD could be the key to slowing down the ageing process or reversing it altogether. Tests on two-year-old mice who had been given the NAD-producing compound for just one week had body tissue...
