Saturday, December 6, 2025

Dextrous robotic manipulators

https://youtu.be/zwDXcNT6Zoc?si=DCozUAfdNrkDiNOG

Quite a breakthrough - silent fast actuators that doing generate heat. 

Thursday, December 4, 2025

How the Chinese qwerty keyboard was developed

The Wubi effect -  the story of Professor Wang Yongmin, and how he saved Chinese script from the brink of extinction.


Bioluminescence explained

https://radiolab.org/podcast/the-glow-below

At 24 minutes - why deep sea creatures flash back bioluminescence when you flash a light at them