Taxonomy of communications

Taxonomy of Communications is an interesting start. He’s trying to discover what works in terms of interpersonal communications through a taxonomy of the different types. His taxonomy is skewed, but still an interesting start.

Dominant Dimples

What causes dimples? asked Yahoo and answered that it’s a classical Mendelian dominant-recessive pair. Who’d have thought it?

Modular robots

modular robotics at PARC are super funky robotic creations. This is a good way of adding redundancy to a configuration, as you can carry unused robots in a setup and swap them in when necessary.

Nice Bombs Ya Got There

‘Nice Bombs Ya Got There’ looks at (scary) advances in X-Ray technology. Not one for the tending towards flab.

Not six degrees at all

As SARS become the next six degrees of separation / network effect disease, Could It Be A Big World After All? looks at the original Milgram data to show that there aren’t really six degrees at all. It’s rather more than that.

You’re in control

You’re In Control (Urine Control) is the latest in the list of “how on earth did they get that funded” projects.The You