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Book Club
The Feel Good Bar and Grill A Book About Robots You Can Color
You guys! I made my first book! It’s called The Feel Good Bar and Grill and you can color it if you want! From my Book Baby page: The Feel Good Bar and Grill is a fictional, illustrated story for all ages about a robot named Lina who builds a restaurant on the moon Enceladus. The Feel Good Bar and…
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Featured
The Economics of Our Robot Future
On Sunday morning of SkepchickCON I was one of the panelists on the faux award winning Cities of the Future panel along with Ryan Consell, Desiree Schell and Shawn Otto. We discussed a whole bunch of issues and problems that may come up in a future society such as global warming, resource constraints, and increased urbanization, but by far my favorite…
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Meta Stuff
ICYMI: March 31 – April 6 on the Skepchick Network
If you are like many people I know, you probably spent the weekend at NECSS or Skeptech or some other awesome conference while I have stayed at home, slaving away to bring you this roundup of posts from the Skepchick Network. Pooooooor me. Read them, why don’t you? Teen Skepchick The Physics Philes, lesson 42: Angular and Linear Movement, Long-Lost…
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Science
Get a Stanford University Education in AI!
Originally posted on Mad Art Lab. We have discussed robots here before but did you know that this fall YOU can take an online artificial intelligence class, straight from Stanford University from you living room! It’s true! The course teachers are Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig. Dr. Norvig is a former NASA scientist who is now Google’s director of research…
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Parenting
Engineers and Illiterates team up for SCIENCE!
“When I get down [inside my head]… The marbles start turning and I start seeing shapes and getting a rhythm of things. That’s science to me.” – Steven Tyler Imagine a science experiment where you get to take a bunch of monkeys who do sign language, give them marijuana and ask them to explain science. It’s a pretty amazing scientific…
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AI: Robot Friends
A lighthearted and robotic AI for you all today! This video was brought to my attention via Steve D. and was going to be in the quickies on our art and science blog, Mad Art Lab but it really got me thinking and I couldn’t wait to share it. Every time the robots dropped the ball I heard myself say,…
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