Archive for February, 2006

Slime Mold Incites Motion in Robot

Monday, February 27th, 2006

Maybe this article just appeals to me because I’m currently reading Philip K. Dick’s Clans of the Alphane Moon, which features both a characters who is a slime mold from Ganymede, and another who is an android:
For the first time, signals generated by a living cell have resulted in the locomotion of a six-legged robot, […]

Why We Fight

Monday, February 27th, 2006

Propaganda For Aimed At Liberals
Over the weekend, JK and I went to see the documentary Why We Fight. The plot outline from IMDB is listed as:
Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki’s shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an […]