Month: August 2023
Butt Loads
I had no clue this was a thing. I thought it was slang. I used to hear old nautical terms a lot but TV and the web are slowly weeding out a lot of character in regional speech.
Colorado’s bald eagle population is booming
World’s largest known asteroid impact structure.
World’s largest known asteroid impact structure It was more than double the scale of the Chicxulub impact that killed off the dinosaurs. Yeah, that would get your attention. The size of a possible tsunami has been calculated. An asteroid that was four km (two mi) in diameter falling onto the five km (three mi) deep ocean would have blasted the water …
OK, That is not creepy.
It’s time for Atlas to pick up a new set of skills and get hands on. In this video, the humanoid robot manipulates the world around it: Atlas interacts with objects and modifies the course to reach its goal—pushing the limits of locomotion, sensing, and athleticism. How long before they get a gun?
The Right Tool
LOL
Bruno Liljefors (Swedish painter, 1860-1939), Swans
Bruno Liljefors (Swedish painter, 1860-1939), Swans (Svanar vid strandkanten), 1920, 50 x 60 cm, private collection.
Pigeon Fancier
A Kafka Story.
At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, was walking through a park one day in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favourite doll. She and Kafka searched for the doll unsuccessfully.