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POPS360desktop 360 panoramic workspace with web widgets. Check out the demo video on the website.
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POPSVibrating raindrops may power our homes At the moment the charges generated are only small, but some things only need a small charge to operate. It is literally harnessing gravity. There is energy everywhere, it's just a matter of learning to harness it. Of course there is the known problem of inefficient, and destructive means of generating energy, being perpetuated due to vested interests. Energy sources such as this have been known for years by those who profit and administrate, and their existence has been smothered. Now with the net things like this are impossible to hide from the public, and their base fear may eventuate. That people will be able to be self sufficient. If the planet lasts that long.
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POPSReverse Graffiti The Brazilian artist’s work came to a happier resolution. The authorities were certainly miffed but could find nothing to charge him with. They had no other recourse but to clean the tunnel — but only the parts Alexandre had already cleaned. The artist merely continued his campaign on the other side of traffic. The utterly flummoxed city officials then decided to take drastic action. Not only did they clean the entire tunnel but also every other tunnel in Sao Paulo. Bravo!
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POPSRobots Evolve And Learn How to Lie By the 50th generation, the robots had learned to communicate—lighting up, in three out of four colonies, to alert the others when they’d found food or poison. The fourth colony sometimes evolved “cheater” robots instead, which would light up to tell the others that the poison was food, while they themselves rolled over to the food source and chowed down without emitting so much as a blink. Some robots, though, were veritable heroes. They signaled danger and died to save other robots. “Sometimes,” Floreano says, “you see that in nature—an animal that emits a cry when it sees a predator; it gets eaten, and the others get away—but I never expected to see this in robots.”
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POPSEat food. Not too much. Mostly plants I heard an interview with author, Michael Pollan, on CBC radio in the car last night. Either I was very receptive, or what he was saying made absolute simple sense which seemed to cut through all the BS about nutrition, health, etc. that we are bombarded with 24/7.
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POPSChildren's sexuality shouldn't be stifled "Children must learn about sexuality, otherwise things can go very wrong," said Langfeldt. "Children can't object to something they don't know about, and children can more easily and readily report assaults if they already are aware of their own sexuality." Juul conceded that "many are disturbed by children's sexuality, but I think it's important to put it on the agenda. That, in fact, is what we're doing."
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POPSThe ten most influential video games ever Although the very first computer games were created in the early 1950s, the video game explosion really began a little over 30 years ago when mysterious bleeping cabinets with the legend ‘Space Invaders’ painted on them began appearing in the nation’s pubs. Since those crude beginnings the game industry has grown into a business to rival Hollywood, and, of course, has its own awards ceremony, the Golden Joysticks, to celebrate excellence in the field.
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POPSLuciano Pavarotti Has Died Luciano Pavarotti has died in his home in Medina Italy, at 5 AM local time. I never got to see Pavarotti perform, but I have been lucky enough to see Paul Potts live and to see and hear the thundering singing of a truely gifted tenor is an absolutely amazing and breathtaking experience. Rest in Peace Pavarotti.
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