This Venn diagram no doubt has applicability beyond British politics:
https://twitter.com/DanHannanMEP/status/612388166377578496/photo/1
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On offense
Math stumper? It’s easier than it looks at first glance
Still, on a test given to the world’s brightest math students from 16 countries 20 years ago, only 10% got it right. The percentage of Americans taking the test who got it right? Only 4%.
Hint:
Answer:
Coffee…is there anything it can’t do?
How about a manipulator arm that could be used for minimally-invasive surgery?
Inspired by octopus arms, a robotic arm that can bend, stretch and squeeze through cluttered environments has been created by researchers in Italy.
Soft robotics is a promising technology in the medical field, particularly for surgical applications. This arm was designed for surgical operations which need to access remote, confined regions of the body and, once there, manipulate soft organs without damaging them, and relies on coffee grounds as a control mechanism!
For more details, there’s this journal article with diagrams.
Fun with photos
An amusing little toy…you give it a picture, and it tells you how old it thinks the people in it are:
I gave it this photo, taken by a professional portrait photographer about three years ago. At the time, I was 40 and Tabitha was 32. The results it gave me were kinda funny (though she wouldn’t have been amused :-) ). You can download the picture and see for yourself, or just upload one of your own pictures and see what it makes of it.
Getting what they voted for, good and hard
Obama Administration: Times Square Must Remove Iconic Billboards
You can call it a bureaucratic blunder … or a Washington blooper.
But any way you slice it a move by the federal government to make the city remove Times Square’s iconic billboards falls in the category of “whose bright idea is this?”
It is known as the “Crossroads of the World,” the “Center of the Universe” and “the Great White Way,” but Times Square could become like the “Black Hole of Calcutta” if the federal government has its way, CBS2’s Marcia Kramer reported Tuesday.
The feds say many of Times Square’s huge and neon-lit billboards must come down or the city will lose about $90 million in federal highway money.
Mary Keefe, Model for Rockwell’s ‘Rosie the Riveter,’ Dies at 92
Mrs. Keefe never wielded a rivet gun before the 1990s, but her image encouraged women to pinch-hit in military plants in World War II.
Mary Keefe, Model for Rockwell’s ‘Rosie the Riveter,’ Dies at 92
(Heard about it from this post, which had no links, but Google is your friend.)
▶ Don’t flip off monkeys
You might not like what happens if you do:
▶ Don’t flip off monkeys
You might not like what happens if you do:
500 channels, and nothing’s on
Not missing the cable TV I ditched a year and a half ago. The extra $100 per month in my pocket that I’m not spending on it is a nice bonus.
Big names in the business are starting to get wise to the pending demise of TV as we’ve known it:
Jerry Seinfeld: Network TV Is Dead
He says that if he were just starting his show now, he would go with an internet-centered exhibitor rather than a network.
The 55-year-old comedian also explained why the man behind NBC’s iconic Seinfeld would choose the internet over the small screen. “TV is over,” is his answer.
“When you get to a certain point in the business, what a man is looking for in a network is the same as in his underwear. A little bit of support and a little bit of freedom,” he said according to a transcript via Tubefilter. “That’s exactly what Crackle offered. There’s nothing different about what we’re doing than what anyone else is doing on any media anywhere. TV networks are worried that you’ll figure out TV is over, and there’s nothing special about it.“