differentials, slider joints, springs etc. I've found it handy for virtually prototyping, you can mock up and test machine concepts much faster than CAD software.RoboCo is a sandbox game about designing and building robots to serve the needs of squishy, hapless humans in the world of tomorrow...
What I do is tell stories. That’s where my publishing background comes in. I take things that are difficult to express and distil them down to something that is easy to understand. The river has many stories, so there’s a plenitude to choose from. One of the stories that intrigues m...
Provisioning:Nature gives humans ways to keep themselves fed, clothed, and sheltered. Regulating:Nature does many things to make our planet livable, from holding back storm surges to capturing carbon and filtering air and water. Cultural:Nature plays a central role in relig...
“..All the hand-sanitizer in the world can’t save us from some of history’s nastiest viruses and the horrifying diseases they cause in humans—and we know you’re just itching to know all about them. Here are eight of the deadliest viruses the world has ever seen… …8. No virus ...
Through evolution, early humans who could detect something wrong in their environment suggesting potential danger survived and we have all inherited high alarm settings for potential threats. That negativity bias is so powerful that we need to see five positive things to balance out one negative, ...
For example, fear alerts us to danger and causes us to flee; sadness encourages us to withdraw and reflect amid loss; and disgust helps rid us of contamination by causing us to spit out potentially poisonous things. Each of these emotions cause us to act in a specific way and has ...
“austerity.” It is hard for anything to grow in a field of austerity, our time now, here in America, where things on the surface look normal or so we are led to believe, but where in fact for most people there is less oxygen in the air, less space to move in, less potential ...
Nevertheless in a world that rewards positivism, where things must be “amazing!,” a critical but passionately skeptical voice may have “positive” utility to cultural discourse. As I point out in the “About” page of this blog: A Year of Positive Thinking may turn out to be a ...
Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions! 2019 while True: learn() 🎮 You’re a machi...
All these things need pathogenic agents and other host species that stand between disease and infection from those diseases–not only humans but also animals and crops [87]. For the first time, it was confirmed that a tiger was infected with the COVID-19 virus in Bronx Park in New York,...