Everybody wants to get on that robot bandwagon, and the military are no exception. They’ve been investing in the development of a robotic pack-animal called the BigDog, which looks kind of like a headless metal dog/horse hybrid. Ugly as it may be, it can apparently tote 120lbs over a variety of terrains.
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Feng Shui For Your Website
If your website isn’t getting the traffic it should be, maybe you ought to work to establish a harmonious balance of elements. I’m not going to speculate how this site would fare in a feng shui evaluation. Where is north, anyway?
Wealth Distribution In America
The Economist has a fascinating portrayal of wealth distribution in the United States, one that strives to avoid drawing political conclusions about the subject.
The Evolution Of Intelligent Design
David Brin’s penned an interesting exploration of the alternatives to evolution and Intelligent Design, such as panspermia and guided evolution. If ID is, as its practitioners claim, about allowing alternate theories their fair share of student brain space, then why stop there?
The Calculator Phone
Samsung’s new P300 mobile phone is the size of a credit card, with the looks of an old skool calculator. That’s getting to be a little too small — I’m afraid I’d try to jam it in the gas station pump by accident.