October 7, 2007 – 11:33 am
From Daily Mail.
A bottlenose dolphin goes into labour . . . then a calf emerges, tail first. Mother guides baby gently to the surface, where they swim together for the first time.
Very few dolphin births have been captured on film in such astonishing detail.
This one was recorded at a wildlife park pool in Rimini, [...]
October 6, 2007 – 2:04 pm
From Jalopnik. (Tokyo Auto Show Preview)
It looks ugly! But, it is cute!
Nissan’s Pivo concept car can drive sideways too. (Google news)
Japan’s Nissan Motor Co. on Friday unveiled a new version of its egg-shaped Pivo concept car that can drive sideways and has a small robot to assist with navigation or calm down angry [...]
October 4, 2007 – 1:24 pm
From Massive Free Education List by JimmyR.com.
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Campus launches YouTube channel. (UC Berkeley)
UC Berkeley is the first university to make videos of full courses available through YouTube. Visitors to the site at youtube.com/ucberkeley can view more than 300 hours of videotaped courses and events. Topics range from bioengineering, to peace and conflict studies, to “Physics for [...]
August 9, 2007 – 10:31 pm
Remote control kite is the brainchild of Singaporean Michael Lim, who was inspired by his young daughter’s childlike request of “plucking the stars from the heavens” to add LED lights to his RC kite so they resemble stars in the night sky. That gave the kite its resemblance to fireflies and it was nicked “Firefly”.
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