The 'Fungus Eater' is a testbed for simulation models in emotion psychology proposed by Toda (1962). Thomas Wehrle describes it in New Fungus Eater Experiments: The Fungus-Eater is a fictitious mining robot that is sent to a planet called Taros to collect uranium ore. It uses wild fungi growing on ...
[Weird] casperlectronics = cool stuff
Casperlectronics proposes cool stuff liek crazy samples drawn from old toys. ...
(Weird) Bluetooth and political struggle
Bluetooth against Bush: Bluetooth Against Bush uses bluetooth enabled devices (mobile phones, PDA's, laptop computers) to create moments of ad-hoc solidarity for people opposed to George W. Bush and his disastrous policies. ...
(Research) Morris Water Task: rats navigation is maze
(Sutherland &Hoesing, 1993): The Morris water maze consists of a submerged platform placed somewhere within a pool of water made opaque with milk or chalk (Morris, Garrud, Rawlins, & O’Keefe, 1982). When placed in this pool, rats try to find a way out; they initially swim randomly until they find t...
(TheWorld) A journalist in Kubrick's Kingdom
Via The Guardian: two years after his death, Jon Ronson was invited to the Kubrick estate "and let loose among the fabled archive". The journey to the Kubrick house starts normally. (...) There are boxes everywhere - shelves of boxes in the stable block, rooms full of boxes in the main house(...)I ...
(Switzerland) «Diese Rosinenpickerei der Schweiz funktioniert so nicht»
Concept to learn: «Die Rosinenpickerei» (Nun müsse sich das Land zwischen Isolation oder Integration entscheiden, die Rosinenpickerei gehe nicht länger weiter). Deutschland hat laut Innenminister Otto Schily versäumt, die Schweiz rechtzeitig über die verschärften Grenzkontrollen zu informieren. Wen...
(Weird) A virtual dictature
Nova Sodomia is a virtual dictature... ...
(Tech) Automated Trend Discovery for Weblogs
BlogPulse allow you to watch key phrases or key people as well as links mined on over 750,000 weblogs using machine learning algorithms and natural language processing techniques BlogPulse mines for bursty phrases and person names instead of for the most popular ones. The most popular phrases and ...
[Weird] Biology of aggression
Researchers bet on fruit fly fights to expose underlying biology of aggression Round by round, move by move, video replay of 75 fruit fly fights reveals statistically significant patterns of normal fighting behavior. Male fruit flies that pick a fight are likely to win the battle. Losing fruit flie...
(Weird) Monobrow!
Monobrow!Mission Statement: At Monobrow.com, we don't view having one eyebrow as a grotesque, freakish human deformity. On the contrary. We think you are special (and not the kind of special where you wear a helmet.) The kind of special where people look at the hairy, catipillar-like growth above ...