Vince Levey

Aug
19th

Tue

Pac-Man: The Movie

Aug
18th

Mon

Google Maps street view of the Apple campus at 1 Infinite Loop.

Aug
17th

Sun

Oktapodi, or, cartoon octopus chase sequence.

Aug
14th

Thu

A robot controlled by a blob of rat brain cells could provide insights into diseases such as Alzheimer’s, University of Reading scientists say.

The project marries 300,000 rat neurons to a robot that navigates via sonar.

The neurons are now being taught to steer the robot around obstacles and avoid the walls of the small pen in which it is kept.

— I, for one, welcome our new rat-brain robot overlords.

In Britain, the Atomic Weapons Establishment is looking at whether an ultra-short pulse laser can trigger uranium isomers by stimulating the electron shell around the nucleus into an energetic state. The technique is called Nuclear Excitation by Electron Transition, and involves zapping a quantity of material so it becomes a plasma.

— Discredited pseudoscience or a newly useful technology?

Aug
10th

Sun

Ghosts of Macintosh Past T-shirt.

Aug
8th

Fri

Body parts made of bread.