Eh, one more combo post for the night. Click both links for video.
Robotic arm rides, 5 cents (Engadget)
Also via Engadget:

A Tiny Robotic Hand (Technology Review)
“It is the world’s smallest robotic hand, and [it] could be used to perform microsurgery,” says Chang-Jin Kim, the lead researcher at UCLA, who says the device is safe for biological [...]

Of course. The world goes on even when you aren’t paying attention.

Courts Turn to Wikipedia, but Selectively (NYT)
When a court-appointed special master last year rejected the claim of an Alabama couple that their daughter had suffered seizures after a vaccination, she explained her decision in part by referring to material from articles in Wikipedia, [...]

Disinfect the core
I can beat the computer about 75% of the time. I cannot imagine that completing my prelim would be any more satisfying.

I’ve been slacking off on this blog, but I have been seriously lacking inspiration recently. And that hasn’t changed.
But people still visit the site, so I might as well put that to good use.
My cat Gus is partially an outdoor cat, but I am afraid to just let him run wild lest someone thinks [...]

Hippocrates, 400 BCE
13. The greatest and most dangerous disease, and the one that proved fatal to the greatest number, was consumption. With many persons it commenced during the winter, and of these some were confined to bed, and others bore up on foot; the most of those died early in spring who were confined to [...]