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I had posted these “futuristic” thoughts a while ago. But looking at this NY Times article about Google cars that drive themselves, it appears that the future is here. The article talks about a car project at Google, and Google’s experiments on real roads: The car is a project of Google, which has been working in secret . . . → Read More: Google Car That Drives Itself Dan Ariely, the renowned behavioral economist and the author of the widely popular book “Predictably Irrational” has some interesting things to say about the effect of massive bonuses and their true effect on job performance in his New York Times article. Ariely and his co-researchers use some cleverly designed experiments to study the relationship between the magnitude of . . . → Read More: The Downside of Bonus An article in Medical News Today asks “Is Technology Producing A Decline In Critical Thinking And Analysis?” Much of today’s learning and research is relies on computer based search on the internet and multi-media presentations. A lot of information is made available very quickly, and often there is too much to process mentally to find the really . . . → Read More: Effect of Technology: Are We Seeing More and Thinking Less? An interesting presentation – How FIRST Robotics can influence students and play a critical role in reshaping school education. blip.tv . . . → Read More: Why Schools Should Have A Robotics Team Over 140,000 children are participating in this year’s FIRST Lego League (FLL) tournament, comprising 14,725 teams from 56 countries. That’s almost a 14% growth over last year’s participation, as the chart on the FLL site shows. Starting from the pilot tournament in 1998 in which 210 teams from 2 countries participated, FLL has grown steadily across the . . . → Read More: FIRST Lego League 2009: 14,725 teams from 56 countries First things first…. What is FIRST? FIRST stands for For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology. Here are some quotes and pictures from the FIRST website. While driving on US 101 along the southern Oregon coast with family, we stopped by a very unique attraction – The Darligntonia Wayside, a few miles north of Florence. This is a small park that you can find to your right immediately as you drive into the marked side-road off the highway. There is a sign-board . . . → Read More: Place To See: Darlingtonia Wayside near Florence, Oregon Electromate-400 is a power-pack, jump-starter and air compressor, all rolled into one – a very handy device to carry in your car on road trips. . . . → Read More: Review: Black and Decker – Electromate® 400 AC/DC Portable Power Station/Jump-Starter/Compressor Here is an interesting creation using Mindstorms NXT, a Rolling-Orbital-Bluetooth-Operating-Thing (ROBOT) as its creator calls it. Spherical Robot 02 (YouTube) This project uses two NXT controllers: one inside the “thing” and an external one that acts as the remote control. The two controllers communicate via Bluetooth. The external controller is also uses NXT motors that are very cleverly . . . → Read More: A Remote-Controlled Ball? It's A Spherical-Robot Based On Mindstorms NXT I just read a post in Dan Ariely’s blog about the new expanded version of Predictably Irrational. Ariely writes:
Predictably Irrational was first published in February 2008, and given the relative ease of modifying books these days, I decided to add some of my reflections on the stock market crisis — and create an expanded edition of Predictably . . . → Read More: Predictably More Irrational? |
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