How to Get an A on the Final

Assure your students if they do this simple coordinated robot army to play this sweet little song, they'll get an A.

My students laughed when they there were only 303 views of this video. Now there are 1.5 million and counting.

Robert Sawyer on Immortality

TED talk from Robert J Sawyer about living forever.

A Gun to Get that Student to be Quiet

Japan invented a gun that repeats words to speakers that is intended to get people to shut up.

Future trash

How trash may soon be disposed of in NYC

Explanations explained

Edge.com asks "WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE DEEP, ELEGANT, OR BEAUTIFUL EXPLANATION?"

Some of the following are only a few of the major-league hitters who reply: Rudy Rucker, Cliff Pickover, Jared Diamond, Steven Pinker, Lawrence M. Krauss, Leonard Susskind, Douglas Rushkoff, Freeman Dyson, Gregory Benford, Brian Eno, Doug Coupland, John McWhorter, V.S. Ramachandran

5 SF Technologies that May Not Be

... & Why not?

Ancient plants live again

32.000 year old plants are born again.

Deep sea monsters

Photos of creepy-looking, tiny sea creatures--often in extreme environments.

Simulating Literary Stories

Using an fMRI, scientists found “Readers understand a story by simulating the events in the story world and updating their simulation when features of that world change.”

Alzheimer's

Alzheimer's spreads, cell to cell, via proteins--similar to prions in the famous "mad cow disease." Scientists (or the article writers) are hopeful that the disease will be cured for these studies.

Climate Class

Free Climate Class (not for credit)

Breaking Writing Rules

10 Writing Rules that io9 wants to see broken.

Also, 20 great infodumps.

Alien matter

Non-solar-system material spotted in our solar system.

How to Get an A on the Final

Assure your students if they do this simple coordinated robot army to play this sweet little song, they'll get an A.

Flying bots

Cool video of flying robots and their capabilities.

Ted Chiang interview

Ted Chiang is interviewed here.

Frankenmalware

Viruses and worms have been combined.

New footage of the far side of the moon

NASA recently released footage from the "dark" or, rather far side of the moon. (There is no dark side of the moon.)