From Playboy: Trust
“I investigated your husband, Mrs. Adams. He isn’t cheating on you. In fact, I’m your husband. We’ve just really lost touch recently.” 🎨: Tom Toro pic.twitter.com/dC6A4M7gjB — Playboy (@Playboy) 2. März 2018
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Octopus skin inspires engineers to develop programmable ‘camouflaging’ material
For the octopus and cuttlefish, instantaneously changing their skin color and pattern to disappear into the environment is just part of their camouflage prowess. These animals can also swiftly and reversibly morph their skin into a textured, 3-D surface, giving the animal a ragged outline that mimics seaweed, coral or other objects it detects and uses for camouflage. (more…)
Pastorales Neuland entdecken
Im stressigen Alltag zwischen Beruf, Familie und Freizeit bleibt oft nur wenig Zeit, auf sich selbst und die Bedürfnisse der Mitmenschen zu achten. Mit einem offenen Ohr durch die Welt zu gehen, ist eine der Aufgaben der kirchlichen Pastoral. Christian Bauer und Sigrid Rettenbacher geben Einblicke in eine ganzheitliche Seelsorgeausbildung mit Exposure-Charakter. (more…)
Impatience Is a Virtue for This Innovative UA Freshman
Jeremiah Pate refused to wait until after graduation to found a company, and now he is designing satellites that can explore asteroids and proteins that can battle Parkinson’s disease. (more…)
Quantum Computing
Quantum computing is many things: important, revolutionary and confusing. Who better to explain this monumental technology in understandable terms than a 19th Century Austrian cat? (more…)
Bitcoin prices are getting stable around 11,000 USD
The Coinmarketcap data shows a steady rise of Bitcoin prices from 1 st of March. Around midday, the No. 1 cryptocurrency with market capital of $193 billion, crossed the $ 11,000 line. Since then till the time of writing, Bitcoin prices got stable around 11,432 USD. (more…)
Flexible ‘skin’ can help robots, prosthetics perform everyday tasks by sensing shear force
If a robot is sent to disable a roadside bomb — or delicately handle an egg while cooking you an omelet — it needs to be able to sense when objects are slipping out of its grasp. (more…)
Hard working women from a cotton mill,1909
Hard working women from a cotton mill,1909. pic.twitter.com/damvHbkQ1p — History In Pictures (@HistoryInPix) 26. Februar 2018