If Biomes Can Do It

Brian Eno - 77 Million Paintings

A link to slow your passing, having recently wondered more about multi-band photo voltaic cells, I especially noted the observation of the Cool Tools author about 77 Million Paintings:

(Hurry up, man, this is slow), but by the time the fifth one is changing , it no longer seems slow, and by the 20th, you are in some eternal Zen now. It is quite remarkable how colored lights can change time.

Speaking of Biomes, it is rumored that the author of the Biomes Blog frequents a very chic restaurant.

“How chic is it?”

They serve skunk.

And, from the “Who was that unmasked man” category, in talking largely about energy and work, but also politics and other random thoughts, Engineer Poet advises:

“‘The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.’ Treat it that way.”

OK, EP.

Grand Canyon Skywalk from above

Lastly, rumors that the FSM has been seen floating above the new Grand Canyon Skywalk are totally baseless. Or, in the immortal words of www.plastic.com, “‘Better Science’: When You Don’t Like Real Science”.

2 Comments

jcwinnie

Posted 2006-12-19 at 1:27 pm | Permalink

Arjohn reminds us:
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With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. — RFC 1925
jcwinnie

Posted 2006-12-19 at 6:46 pm | Permalink

You know… you work hard, striving to attain Biomes Blogness, then along comes Roland Piquepaille and with his post, “Robot Frogs use Condoms”, shows what a real scientific commentator can do.

In “The frog robot condom”, The Scientist invites us to follow Peter Narins, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He has already been on 42 field expeditions, tracking the vocal behavior of animals in their natural habitats. But his most interesting research work has been done with frogs. Since 2001, in places such as China, French Guiana or Puerto Rico, he has been using robotic frogs housing a speaker and an air pump. The air pump, used to call or to ask other frogs to leave, inflates and deflates the robotic frog’s throat sac, is made from a condom. Next year, Narins will go to Brunei to study another kind of frog. But he will use enhanced versions of his robots which will be equipped with several motors.

For robotic amphibian prophylactic updates, see Roland’s latest blog entry.

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