DARPA four-legged robot clocks it at 29.3 mph. DARPA’s Cheetah robot—already the fastest legged robot in history—just broke its own land speed record of 18 miles per hour (mph). In the process, Cheetah also surpassed another very fast mover: Usain Bolt. According to the International Association of Athletics Federations, Bolt set the world speed record [...]
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DARPA Cheetah Robot Faster Than Usain Bolt by Almost 2 MPH
Published Thursday September 06 2012 5:42 pm.
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VIDEO: Birth of a Horse at Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences
Published Thursday May 10 2012 10:06 am.
Horse breeder Denny Pietranduono explains how he introduced breeding horse to students at Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences, and how they picked up the routine of breeding horses Farming and raising horses isn’t something people often associate with Chicago. When two race horses named Vega and Calling Card took up residence at the Chicago [...]
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MULTIPLE VIDEOS: Arrival of Space Shuttle Discovery in Washington D.C./Dulles
Published Tuesday April 17 2012 5:49 pm.
The space shuttle Discovery makes one final flight, on top of a Boeing 747, flying low and slow over much of Washington, D.C. The sight drew masses of people looking to the skies at places like the National Mall, as the AP’s Lee Powell found. Discovery departed just after sunrise and arrived in the Washington, [...]
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List of Banished Words for 2012 Courtesy of Lake Superior State Univesity
Published Friday December 30 2011 4:30 pm.
Here is the Lake Superior State University 2012 List of Banished Words AMAZING “The word has been overused to describe things only slightly better than mundane. I blame Martha Stewart because to her, EVERYTHING is amazing! It has lost its ‘wow factor’ and has reached ‘epic’ proportions of use. It’s gone ‘viral,’ I say! ‘I’m [...]
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“Mythbuster’ Hosts Check Out the Damage from Their Misfired Cannonball in Dublin, California
Published Thursday December 08 2011 5:25 pm.
The stars of the TV show ‘Mythbusters’ visit a California neighborhood to survey the damage after one of their experiments went bad. A cannonball missed its target and careened into homes, knocking holes in walls. Mythbuster host Jamie Hyneman: “There will be no cannons fired in this area — at least by us – again.”
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YouTube Space Lab Education Initiative Lifts Off with Lenovo Sponsor
Published Wednesday November 30 2011 9:16 am.
Extraordinary Partnership with Space Adventures and World Renowned Space Agencies Ignites Students’ Passion for Science, Space, and Technology YouTube and Lenovo, in cooperation with Space Adventures and space agencies including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), today announced YouTube Space Lab, a [...]
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VIDEO: Launch of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover
Published Sunday November 27 2011 1:22 pm.
The world’s biggest extraterrestrial explorer is on its way to Mars. NASA on Saturday launched the six-wheeled, one-armed robotic rover, nicknamed Curiosity. The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity was launched November 26, 2011 at 10:02 EST. The MSL is scheduled to land on Mars at Gale Crater between August 6 and August 20, 2012. The [...]
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It’s All About Lucky Number Eleven Today: Eleven, 11-11-11, One-One-One-One-One-One or ‘Eleven-Eleven-Eleven’
Published Friday November 11 2011 7:26 am.
Eleven is an odd number. Eleven is Roman numeral XI. November 11 is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 50 days remaining until the end of the year. On November 11, 1675 Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area [...]
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What Happened to Google Body Browser? Discontinued by Google; Continues with Zygote Media Group
Published Monday October 24 2011 2:22 pm.
The Body Browser tool, which was not officially released by Google, has been discontinued in Google Labs. The original developer, Zygote Media Group, will be a partner with Google in developing the Body Browser website and Android app. The Body Browser works a lot like Google Maps and Street View combined. The user can rotate [...]
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‘Steve Jobs’ Biography by Walter Isaacson Reveals That Steve Jobs Delayed Critical Surgery Needed to Treat Pancreatic Cancer
Published Friday October 21 2011 11:44 am.
Author Walter Isaacson — the biographer of “Steve Jobs” due to be published Monday — says Jobs came up with the Apple Computer name while he was on a diet of fruits and vegetables. Isaacson reports that Steve Jobs delayed surgery for nine months after learning in October 2003 that he had a neuroendocrine tumor [...]
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Today in History for October 5th; Search Trends for October 5, 2011
Published Wednesday October 05 2011 8:19 am.
Highlights of this day in history: First victim dies in post-Sept. 11th anthrax scare; VP candidates spar over JFK; The Beatles release ‘Love Me Do’; ‘Monty Python’ premieres; Baseball’s Barry Bonds tops single-season runs record. 1793 – French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France. 1857 – The City of Anaheim is founded. 1921 – Baseball: [...]
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