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prostheticknowledge: Micro Robots SRI International have developed incredibly small and fast robots that are capable of following building instructions – video embedded below: SRI is developing new technology to reliably control thousands of micro-robots for smart manufacturing of macro-scale products in compact, integrated systems. sriinternational have a Tumblr blog here
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prostheticknowledge: Micro Robots SRI International have developed incredibly small and fast robots that are capable of following building instructions – video embedded below: SRI is developing new technology to reliably control thousands of micro-robots for smart manufacturing of macro-scale products in compact, integrated systems. sriinternational have a Tumblr blog here
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THE HEART’S ETERNAL VOW
THE HEART’S ETERNAL VOW fishingboatproceeds: LEAD: LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA By Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Translated by Edith Grossman. 348 pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $18.95. Thomas Pynchon on Gabriel García Márquez.
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kateoplis: Remember well. Adieu, you magical creature.
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Those who predict the future tend to overestimate change in the short term and underestimate change in the long term. The Desk Set from 1957 with Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy envisioned mainframe-based automation eliminating human staffers in a TV network research department. That has happened to some extent, though it took another 50 years…
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Those who predict the future tend to overestimate change in the short term and underestimate change in the long term. The Desk Set from 1957 with Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy envisioned mainframe-based automation eliminating human staffers in a TV network research department. That has happened to some extent, though it took another 50 years…
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cinoh: Joan Jonas, a pioneering figure in performance and video art, has been chosen to represent the United States at the 2015 Venice Biennale. Ms. Jonas, 78, was selected by the State Department’s bureau of educational and cultural affairs, which promotes cultural exchanges worldwide. Paul C. Ha, the director of the M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center in…
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austinkleon: Jorge Luis Borges: The Task of Art The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy. A writer or any artist…
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punkarcade: Ok, here is the game Marshall 4 that you can play online (click the green flag to start). It’s created entirely in Scratch, the kid-friendly programming language designed at MIT. In Scratch, code is made up of lego-like blocks that you snap together. I’ve made a few things in Scratch, and let me tell…
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To read: (via When Zelda traded heroism for the murky morality of dreams · For Our Consideration · The A.V. Club)