Category: Robots
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Dawkins v. Heller, and Other Things I’ve Read, Heard, or Thought About This Week
Priest-Cosmologist Wins $1.6 Million Templeton Prize — Richard Dawkins was in Madison Tuesday promoting The God Delusion. Suffice it to say, reading about Fr. Heller this morning was a significant change of pace from Wednesday’s news. I’m grateful for the juxtaposition though, because in investigating it this evening I found a totally fascinating, though aging,…
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Insane in the Brain
Two crazy brain-related stories caught my eye today in Science Times. One of them, get this, involves involves a monkey controlling a robot on another continent. Monkeys and robots? Nice. Turns out we wrote a similar story in Wisconsin Engineer; there’s some (probably related) research going on at UW-Madison. The other story, perhaps more bizarre,…