Month: August 2010
#fullboycott: Noch aktiv!
Ach ja, nur ganz nebenbei… es ist über ein Jahr her, aber wir habens nicht vergessen. Der #fullboycott-Modus ist immer noch aktiv. Reduziert eure Medienausgaben. Auf Null! Link
#fullboycott: Still active!
And by the way. It’s over a year and most of you guys already forgot about it. But #fullboycott mode is still active… Reduce your expenses on media products. To zero. Link
Paleo-Future blog
I just want to share this link to a blog described as “A look into the future that never was”. It has a wealth of tagged images and commentary and can be searched by decade. Link
Artificial Bee Eye Gives Insight Into Insects’ Visual World
Despite their tiny brains, bees have remarkable navigation capabilities based on their vision. Now scientists have recreated a light-weight imaging system mimicking a honeybee’s field of view, which could change the way we build mobile robots and small flying vehicles. New research published Aug. 6 in IOP Publishing’s Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, describes how the researchers … Read more
Bury the Graveyard: If you want to figure out a way forward for Afghanistan, fake history is not the place to start
It’s the mother of all clichés. Almost no one can resist it. It’s wielded by everyone from thoughtful ex-generals to vitriolic bloggers. It crops up everywhere from Russia’s English-language TV channel to scruffy Pakistani newspapers to America’s stately National Public Radio. The Huffington Post can’t seem to live without it, and one recent book even … Read more