My kids (two boys, 7-year-old-twins) recently made a bird feeder. We painted it, hung it up in the backyard, and waited for birds to come. Now that spring is here, there are more and more birds at the feeder every morning. It’s nice to watch them, my kids learn about nature, the […]
Archive for April, 2008
Evolution is something happens over millions of years, right? Slowly, over eons of time, primates evolve into hominids, hominids in proto-humans, proto-humans into modern homo sapiens.
But evolution doesn’t always unfold at such a crawling pace. Take, for example, the case of several Italian wall lizards left on a small island off […]
Scientists and engineers at MIT have created a new, experimental robot called Nexi that can appear to express human emotions like anger, surprise and sadness through a series of facial expressions.
The machine is an MDS robot, which stands for mobile, dexterous and social. And, indeed, as you can see in this clip, […]
What you see in the picture to the left is not a muppet. It looks like one, though, doesn’t it? What you’re seeing is a newly discovered fish with a flat face forward-looking eyes and leg-like fins that it uses to crawl along coral reefs.
This weird fish is a kind of […]