Seen the Boston Dynamics dancing robots ( Read more... )

Essential reading and a pleasingly (if somewhat implausibly, to me) positive note to the end.

Tomgram: Bill McKibben, Climate Change's O.J. Simpson Moment

(Hat-tip to marypcb.)

I am getting really concerned these days by a dangerous new trend that's catching on like a bad cliché among a lot of my friends & acquaintances who I thought were smarter & better-informed ( Read more... )

I recently saw a rather fun little web page which took various passages from books and replaced all works describing colour with a small block of the colour itself; the object was to try to work out the hue described. You could click on the swatch to see if you were right. (Alas, I can't find the link. Sorry ( Read more... )