A robot that flies like a bird – YouTube — http://www.ted.com
Plenty of robots can fly — but none can fly like a real bird. That is,
until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large,
lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings. A
soaring demo fresh from TEDGlobal 2011.
DBpedia 3.7 released, including 15 localized … — The new
DBpedia data set describes more than 3.64 million things, of which 1.83
million are classified in a consistent ontology, including 416,000 persons,
526,000 places, 106,000 music albums, 60,000 films, 17,500 video games,
169,000 organizations, 183,000 species and 5,400 diseases.
Back to (the wrong) school — As we get ready for the 93rd year of
universal public education, here’s the question every parent and taxpayer
needs to wrestle with: Are we going to applaud, push or even permit our
schools (including most of the private ones) to continue the safe but
ultimately doomed strategy of churning out predictable, testable and mediocre
factory-workers?
