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Janken Robot Wins At Rock, Paper, Scissors Every Single Time

Janken Robot Wins At Rock, Paper, Scissors Every Single Time

Jun 27 2012 | comment(s)

Is it possible to lose at Rochambeau, the millenia-old game of Rock, Paper, Sissors, every single time?

It shouldn't be but a new Janken robot (Janken is the Japanese name for Rock, Paper, Scissors - why is the West stuck with a French name for an ancient Egyptian game?  It's a mystery of linguistics) can win against humans without fail.  

Is it psychic?  Are humans that predictable?  No, it basically cheats - if by cheating I mean being much faster than I can ever be.
Shimi: Like Microsoft Bob, Except For Music

Shimi: Like Microsoft Bob, Except For Music

Jun 27 2012 | comment(s)

Is the world ready for a robot DJ?

Sometimes you have to be bold.  People laughed at Microsoft when they introduced Microsoft Bob too; people didn't know they needed a graphical image of their office showing a fax machine to send a fax - until it was available.  
James Lovelock: What's Eating The Godfather Of Global Warming?

James Lovelock: What's Eating The Godfather Of Global Warming?

Jun 26 2012 | comment(s)

James Ephraim Lovelock, CH, CBE, FRS, Ph.D, aged 92, is a chemist and creator of the Gaia Hypothesis. He is called the 'Godfather of Global Warming'. 

What he was, to most people, was an alarmist more on the order of President Obama's Science Czar John Holdren, a doomsday zealot. And I don't mean 'alarmist' in the American political sense, i.e., anyone who accepts the science of climate change - I mean a real End Of The World Is Nigh prophet.  So silly even the hysterical poster child of Think Progress, Joe Romm, believed Lovelock was over the top.
Don't Be Hatin' On Edward O. Wilson, Richard

Don't Be Hatin' On Edward O. Wilson, Richard

Jun 25 2012 | comment(s)

Professor Richard Dawkins, the bestselling author who has been wrong about biology as often as he has been right, is taking Edward O. Wilson, Science 2.0's favorite myrmecologist, to task for his latest book.
Political Science Is Not A 'Critical Part Of Our National Science Agenda'

Political Science Is Not A 'Critical Part Of Our National Science Agenda'

Jun 25 2012 | comment(s)

Political scientists are in a panic because the US House of Representatives passed a bill which contains a line item eliminating National Science Foundation grants for political scientists. The Senate may vote soon also, though there are a lot more Democrats in the Senate so it is unlikely it will pass. We know how much they hate science.