Category: Hakuna matata

Robot that runs over water

Robot that can walk on waterDiscovery news has a story about robot that runs over water. From the article:
em>A robot that can speed across the surface of water like a lizard could open the door for multi-legged amphibious robots.

The Water Runner, being developed by assistant professor Metin Sitti at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, could search for victims in flooded disaster areas, be equipped with biochemical sensors to monitor water quality, or use tiny cameras to survey coastline security zones or ports.

It got very good applications. Read the completer article here

Remembering Chernobyl Nuclear Nightmares

Twenty years ago y’day, the world’s worst nuclear disaster blew the roof off the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. For many people, the event seems far off, and much has changed in the decades since. But for those who live in Chernobyl and other former Soviet towns, afflictions from nuclear accidents and experiments remain an intimate part of their lives.

I hope human learn something from it. There is still great dangerous because of Nuclear bombs.

Photographer Robert Knoth and reporter Antoinette De Jong have traveled through the Ukraine, Urals, Kazakhstan, and Siberia to capture, in searing black-and-white portraits, the way that nuclear radiation has forever altered the humans who face it

Height of Inequity

According to Sunday TOI article, if you are taller you makes more money.

Tall people get paid more and get higher status and respect. According to study published by Psychology Today, “Each inch in height could mean an extra $789 in pay each year. An extra six inches for example results in an extra $4,734 in annual income.”

I guess taller == richer? But check this out:

Fibonacci based Poetry – The Fib and nothing else

Go here for more fib:

One
Small,
Precise,
Poetic,
Spiraling mixture:
Math plus poetry yields the Fib.

That’s the very first Fib written by Gregory. From Slashdot TFA “The poems are six lines, 20 syllables long with the syllable pattern 1/1/2/3/5/8, though they can go longer, obviously. I’ve been calling ’em Fibs, and people have been writing them on pop culture, politics, math, and more.

Nice and geeky stuff…

Discovered: the missing link that solves a mystery of evolution

Guardian Science reporting that “Scientists have made one of the most important fossil finds in history: a missing link between fish and land animals, showing how creatures first walked out of the water and on to dry land more than 375m years ago.”

A cast of the fossil goes on display at the Science Museum in South Kensington central London today.

Read full article here

Update: See Missing Link pics @ BBC news site:

Google earth images will be masked

Google earth images will be masked for important installation across India. You will not able to see clear Google satellite images of Rashtrapati Bhavan, HQ of armed forces, the PM office and other nuclear installation any more via Google Earth software.

Since India run very high terror, risk this good move. TOI reporting (warning: Enable popup blocker) that some key portions of Google mapas of Indian cities will soon be blurred now.

However, it is not clear how government is going to implement it. There are some interesting comments on this story.

Tree climbing robot video

A remarkable, if slightly creepy, tree-climbing robot is being developed by robotics experts from Carnegie Mellon and several other US Universities.

The video is here.

More info can be found at new scientist blog “Obviously such a robots could have plenty of useful applications, in search-and-rescue and space exploration, for example.”