https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkczJGyc3uc Dmitry Berenson, assistant professor of computer science and robotics engineering, is the principal investigator of a three-year, $600,000 award for a project that will draw on the disparate fields of robot motion planning and human task planning. Berenson will develop algorithms that will permit robots to collaborate with people on manufacturing operations. Sonia Chernova,... Continue Reading →
Scientists Successfully Destroy Cancer With Nanobubbles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pgH6YMby3M A study investigating an explosive cancer therapy that was developed two years ago by scientists at Rice University has demonstrated its highly promising potential against stubborn drug-resistant cancers in pre-clinical animal trials. The technology, dubbed “quadrapeutics”, marries four clinically approved existing treatments in a lethal combination that is capable of seeking out and destroying... Continue Reading →
Poll: 51 percent of Americans want under $100,000
http://youtu.be/xgY-n7oTsE0 A CNN Money survey found the "magic number" that would make Americans happy financially is less than $100,000. And it turns out many Americans don't think they need a CEO paycheck to be happy, or even six figures. When asked how much would do the trick, just over half of people surveyed in CNNMoney's... Continue Reading →
Teenager Invents Energy-Generating Shoe Insoles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc4CD1aEFwE Fifteen-year-old Angelo Casimiro from the Philippines has just invented a smart shoe insole that produces enough electricity when you walk to charge small USB devices. The gizmo consists of piezoelectric materials, which, as Angela explains, can generate an alternating current voltage when actuated. (Solid materials like certain ceramics and salts exhibit this effect, which... Continue Reading →
Meet Pepper, the world’s first robot that reads emotions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwMJCAZUyGc Like the Tin Man in The Wizard Of Oz, the robot community has finally found its heart. This time around it's not made of sawdust-stuffed silk. Better -- sensors, cameras, microphones and proprietary algorithms that calculate human emotion according to vocal intonation and facial expressions. And soon it could be ambling around your home,... Continue Reading →
Watch Capitalism Is The Crisis: Radical Politics in Age of Austerity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYFw3O--2R0 Capitalism Is The Crisis: Radical Politics in the Age of Austerity is a film featuring a diverse array of thinkers offering common sense analysis of the trappings of modern life and critical perspectives on basic assumptions of capitalism and democracy. The film presents original interviews, including Chris Hedges, David Graeber, Derrick Jensen, Michael Hardt,... Continue Reading →
Igor Vamos of ‘Yes Men’ pranks Reed College during commencement speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lUtPgtP168 A fake press release claimed Oregon's Reed College announced that it was going to divest its holdings of fossil fuel stocks. Both the Portland Tribune and KBOO were duped by the hoax, which was orchestrated by the pranking group The Yes Men's Igor Vamos and the Fossil Free Reed Campaign. Vamos was the guest... Continue Reading →
Ready to radicalize: Thousands of Brazilians protest govt spending on World Cup
http://youtu.be/9v7ijbXs5BU Just a week before the World Cup, around 12,000 protesters marched on Sao Paulo’s football stadium demanding low-income housing. At the same time the city’s Metro workers declared an indefinite strike, bringing Brazil’s largest city to a grinding halt. Thousands of members of the Homeless Workers Movement marched on Sao Paulo’s Corinthians stadium on... Continue Reading →
3-D bioprinting builds a better blood vessel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VHFlwJQIkE The tangled highway of blood vessels that twists and turns inside our bodies, delivering essential nutrients and disposing of hazardous waste to keep our organs working properly has been a conundrum for scientists trying to make artificial vessels from scratch. Now a team from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) has made headway in fabricating... Continue Reading →
Disposable bicycles are here
http://vimeo.com/37584656 He was told by three engineers such a feat would be impossible, but after his wife persuaded him, designer Giora Kariv got to work on a bicycle made out of cardboard that costs just $9 to manufacture. Kariv got inspired by the man who made a canoe out of cardboard, and combined his own... Continue Reading →
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