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Recent Archives
Sonic Boom: Chicken Gun
Collisions with birds are a serious threat to both military and civilian airplanes. And, yes, the military could have spent millions of dollars developing an avian projectile that would have the same characteristics as a bird, and millions of dollars more manufacturing these synthetic projectiles to be fired at airplane windshields and engines for testing …
E.O. Wilson: World Champion
World-famous evolutionary biologist and entomologist E.O. Wilson died on Sunday, leaving behind a legacy as exceptional and wide-ranging as was his intellect and curiosity. An eye injury as a child permanently damaged his distance vision, limiting him to the examination of little things, and ultimately leading him to focus on ants, which became his lifelong …
Robot Gaze Aversion
Humans relate better to robots that avert their eyes at well-chosen moments.
