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#Lego car becomes an avatar for a worm http://www.engadget.com/2014/11/27/lego-car-becomes-an-avatar-for-a-worm Powered by adapting nematode neural #connectome for sound, instead of food

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Remember the OpenWorm project, in which researchers reproduced the
genome of a nematode worm digitally and made it wiggle around on a
screen? If you take the "brain" of that worm and use it to power a
robotic car, you end up with researcher Timothy Busbice’sWormBot. He
mapped the software into a Lego Mindstorms EV3 bot, then trained it to
follow sound the way a nematode follows food. When he whistles to
"call" the bot, it heads toward him and even stops and reverses if it
detects an obstacle (using the EV3’s sonar) — even though it was
programmed to do none of those things.

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#NSA Intercepted Children’s Letters To Santa http://www.duffelblog.com/2013/12/nsa-letters-to-santa N Pole address is non-US & OK for snooping HT @peterwsinger @DuffelBlog

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/27/style/uber-facebook-and-others-bedeviled-by-moral-issues.html?smid=nytcore-iphone-share&smprod=nytcore-iphone&_r=0

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/24/revenue-streams

Why #Inventors Misjudge… Their Creations http://www.wired.com/2014/10/technological-innovation-oversights Their Blind spots (in hindsight), eg creating a phonograph w/o playback!

Leafy Luxury: Mansions with a Tree Premium http://online.wsj.com/articles/leafy-luxury-mansions-with-a-tree-premium-1417015300 “Street #tree” in frontyard adds >$7K to home price, helps neighbors too

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A 2010 study by the U.S. Forest Service conducted in Portland, Ore., found that the presence of a single “street tree” in front of the home added over $7,000 to its sale price. The street-tree effect spilled over to neighboring houses, increasing property values as well as helping the homes sell faster.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/science/learning-how-little-we-know-about-the-brain.html?_r=0

Could the Secret Service Have Saved JFK? http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2014/10/secret-service-jfk-assassination 2am drinking night before potentially affected reflexes in key 5s betw shots