Academics do the funniest things
Posted 11.28.2008 at 11:27 am
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Wakamaru Shaking Hands
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Plus, rolling blobs, robot roles and more, in today's links.
- We wish all complex ideas could be presented to the public with interpretive dances, just like these. Confused about the fiscal crisis? Jazz hands to the rescue! Unsure how to make a souffle? Glissee tour jete!
- In other performance art news, a robot made its theatrical debut (both for itself and all of its kind) at Japan's Osaka University.
- A grape-sized single cell organism rolls itself along the ocean floor, leaving tracks similar to ones found dating back 530 million years.
- Two men face up to eight years in prison because of a device for passing drug tests that is high-tech but low-class.
- How'd you like to be the astronaut who dropped a $100,000 tool kit in space? Luckily, her unwieldy last name probably prevents this from becoming known as "pulling a Stefanyshyn-Piper."
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I love the Robots and have used them in my classroom.Now, show your students the Living Plant that Moves When You Tickle It! As a teacher I enjoy sharing gadgets but I even more appreciate sharing my love of science and nature with my children and so can you. This may change the way you and the kids react to plants for ever. Imagine giving your children some seeds. Having them watch them sprout and grow. Then shortly after the second leaves appear they tickle the plant and it moves its branches down and closes its leaves! Give them more than a year round house plant to grow as a gift; give them a learning experience they will never forget. I found information and my growing kits at http://www.TickleMePlant.com These are great for controlled studies.