Published Thursday September 06 2012 5:42 pm. Tags: Big Dog, BigDog, Boston Dynamics, Cheetah, DARPA
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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Published Thursday May 10 2012 10:06 am. Tags: High School, horse racing, horseracing
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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Published Tuesday April 17 2012 5:49 pm. Tags: Space Shuttle Discovery, Washington D.C., Washington Dulles
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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Published Friday December 30 2011 4:30 pm. Tags: Banished Word List, Lake Superior State University
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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Published Thursday December 08 2011 5:25 pm. Tags: California, cannon, cannon ball damage, cannonball, cannonball damage, Dublin, experiment gone wrong, Mythbusters
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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Published Wednesday November 30 2011 9:16 am. Tags: education, science, space, Stephen Hawkings, YouTube
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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Published Sunday November 27 2011 1:22 pm. Tags: Atlas V 541 rocket, Curiosity, extraterrestrial explorer, Mars, Mars rover, Mars Rover Curiosity, Mars Science Laboratory, NASA
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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Published Friday November 11 2011 7:26 am. Tags: 11, 11 in numerology, 11.11.11, ELEVEN, eleventh hour, lucky number 11, numerology
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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Published Tuesday November 01 2011 3:28 pm.
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Published Monday October 24 2011 2:22 pm. Tags: 3D, anatomy, Body Browser, bone, Google, Google Body Browser, Google Labs, HTML 5, HTML5, human body, human body map, human organs, muscle, nervous system, skeletal system, skin, WebGL
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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Published Friday October 21 2011 11:44 am. Tags: biography, Google, Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs biography
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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Published Wednesday October 05 2011 8:19 am. Tags: Today in History
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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