Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Linkpost | 10.25.12 | Redux

Linkpost | 10.25.12

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Are big medical results too good to be true? : Many medical guidelines don’t stick to quality standards designed to make them trustworthy, and the situation hasn’t improved over the past two decades, researchers have found. (Reuters) How to eat a Triceratops: “It’s gruesome, but the easiest way to do this was to pull the head off,” scientist says. (Nature) Fish shoots down prey with high-powered jet: Insects are knocked down with a super-powered, super-precise jet of water that packs six times the power the fish could generate with its own muscles. (Scientific American) Meet the robots competing in DARPA’s robotics challenge: These are some pretty cool machines. (IEEE Spectrum) DARPA robot defeats optical course: In this video, the Pet-Proto, a predecessor to DARPA’s Atlas robot, is confronted with obstacles similar to those robots might face in the DARPA Robotics Challenge.

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