Posted by: Kat on: Thursday, 9 October 2008
Messing with your body clock may have bad effects on learning and retention. (I’m looking at you, Gella and Mikko.)
clipped from www.sciencedaily.com
The circadian rhythm that quietly pulses inside us all, guiding our daily cycle from sleep to wakefulness and back to sleep again, may be doing much more
hamsters whose circadian system was disabled by a [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Tuesday, 30 September 2008
Well, MS can’t be all bad, can it?
clipped from newsinfo.inquirer.net
The laboratory is using Microsoft Vista, but Dunleavy promised the school that when he visits the village again next year, he would bring along a Microsoft Version 7
What was then a small school in a depressed village began to change
He gave us fund for school [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Wednesday, 3 September 2008
They’re just using small, four-foot-long helicopters now. But I smell a rogue robot helicopter movie on the horizon.
clipped from www.sciencedaily.com
Stanford computer scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system that enables robotic helicopters to teach themselves to fly difficult stunts by watching other helicopters perform the same maneuvers.
The stunts are “by far the most difficult [...]