A raccoon broke into a liquor store and passed out in the bathroom.
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Drunk raccoon
A raccoon broke into a liquor store and passed out in the bathroom.
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Self driving cars as a public health solution
The science fiction idea of all traffic consisting of autonomous vehicles lowering traffic accidents, is nearing a reality. Waymo released intro of data documenting nearly 100,000,000 miles of cars driven, and the numbers show significant safety outcomes. The self-driving car company Waymo recently released data covering nearly 100 million driverless miles in four American cities…
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AI animation acceleration
Disney is giving animators an AI tool to accelerate character animation. To maintain the “creator-first approach” that centers human artists — a hallmark of last century’s Walt and Roy Disney partnership — Min says that Disney looked into “pretty much all of the AI companies.” “We looked at thousands of companies, all big and small,…
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Detroit gets a Robocop statue
A tweet in 2011 inspired a campaign for a statue of Robocop to be built in Detroit.
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TV creative trees
In sports, coaching trees are when assistants of preeminent coaches become good coaches, or well-known as well. What if we applied similar thinking to TV show runners and writers? The Ringer drafts a lists of shows whose writers or producers went onto create other successful shows.
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When your car becomes a brick
One of the frustrating things about modern life is when a device that requires software to work properly suddenly does not mean working properly, you essentially have a very expensive brick. Vehicles, that require gears, pistons, and all sorts of other mechanical bits and bobs–are also becoming very expensive bricks due to all of the…
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The history of tarot
Playing cards have been around for nearly 500 years, but their form as tarot cards has only been around since the mid 18th century. Whether or not we believe that the cards of the tarot have supernatural powers, we all think of them primarily as tools for divination. It might seem as if they’ve played…
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How to colonize space according to archeologists
Humanity traveled the world throughout its history, creating colonies and cities–for better or worse. If we are to travel through space to other planets, we might need to consider lessons from our past. Their paper, which is published in Acta Astronautica, uses island archaeology to outline eight different lessons that can impact the success of…
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Raccoons Are Showing Early Signs of Domestication
Raccoons Are Showing Early Signs of Domestication With dexterous childlike hands and cheeky “masks,” raccoons are North America’s ubiquitous backyard bandits. The critters are so comfortable in human environments, in fact, that a new study finds that raccoons living in urban areas are physically changing in response to life around humans—an early step in domestication.…
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Dataguessr
Dataguessr is a clever, little web game where are you need to put a set of facts in the correct order. Mostly, the topics tend to relate to populations in certain countries. What makes it challenging is the margins between items are slim, like splitting hairs