“The Khepera bots, as they are called, look more like bugs than bots. They’re just 5.5 centimeters across, they’re packed with sensors and they scoot around on two wheels.”
Tag: 11.17.12
Greece Lays Blasphemy Charges Over Gay Jesus Play
“The actors and creative team behind a play that depicts Jesus Christ and his apostles as gay face charges of blasphemy in Greece, according to court officials.”
Hilton Head’s Arts Center Sinks Ever Deeper In Red Ink
“Despite cutting staff and other expenses over the past three years, the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina has continued operating in the red … The losses occurred at the same time a more daunting problem – paying off long-term debt and funding repairs and improvements … – turned into what center president and CEO Kathleen Bateson has called a ‘$5 million nut to crack’.”
Trapped In A Life Of Irony (The Hipster’s Predicament)
“The ironic frame functions as a shield against criticism. The same goes for ironic living. Irony is the most self-defensive mode, as it allows a person to dodge responsibility for his or her choices, aesthetic and otherwise. … Somehow, directness has become unbearable to us.”
Want To Find Dark Matter? Look For The Wimps In Italy
“Incredibly, around 85% of the universe’s mass is now thought to be made up of wimps. These particles permeate the space around us, flying through normal matter but only rarely interacting with it.”
Artist Arrested At Airport For Artistic Watch (Yes, For Real)
A Southern California artist was arrested at the Oakland airport for his weird watch and shoes – which the TSA worried may contain bomb-making materials.
Yes, Beethoven’s Fifth Is A Warhorse. Now Stop Your Whining And Love It.
“The landscape is saturated with information, the age of mechanical reproduction that Walter Benjamin so famously worried over is now inherent. One could think of warhorses as the monopolizing surplus of that reproduction, reprints squeezing out the space for new releases. But one could also think of them as watchclock checkpoints — fixed stations in the cultural warehouse, keys that we need to periodically turn in order to keep our bearings among an ever-expanding floor plan.”