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qeorqe writes:
The Center for PostNatural History is a museum and research library about organisms that have been created either by genetic engineering or selective breeding. Included in the collection are Sea Monkeys and GloFish. Nature has an interview (pdf) with the curator Richard Pell.
The museum is located in Pittsburgh, PA. Admission is free.
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qeorqe writes:
A robot is being developed at CMU that walks on water.
It is modeled after the basilisk lizard.
Information about the robot can be found in
a pdf file. They have done both computer simulations and experimented
with test models. External counter weights were used with the models.
Information about why you can't walk on water is in
a ppt file
and also converted to
an html file in the Google cache.
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qeorqe writes:
For the tenth anniversary of Deep Blue's victory over the world chess champion Garry Kasparov,
Wired has an interview with Murray Cambell, one of the developers of Deep Blue.
- PC beats Kramnik
- current cell processor as powerful as Deep Blue
- no future in man vs machine chess matches
Recent reports have discussed Garry's recent arrest for participation in a political march in Russia.
