Fried Alligator Anyone? Actually, this was a very delicious appetizer! Added seasonings and dipping sauce made it very interesting!
Here are my readings for today:
“The prototype for Microsoft’s Kinect camera and microphone famously cost $30,000. At midnight Thursday morning, you’ll be able to buy it for $150 as an Xbox 360 peripheral.”
“”Surgery is an art,” says neurosurgeon Michael Lim, who plays the violin when he isn’t excising lesions from brains. As director of the Metastatic Brain Tumor Center at Johns Hopkins, Lim performs about 350 such procedures a year. It’s a job that requires a wealth of high tech tools—and they must be deployed with a finesse that would put a concert violinist to shame.”
” A spacecraft survived the closest encounter ever with a comet on Thursday, tracking it just 435 miles from the comet’s nucleus. Mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, broadcast live coverage of the event on NASA Television’s Media Channel. Controllers broke into applause after hearing of the success.”
“If you’ve been falling behind on sleep, this is the weekend to fall back into bed for an extra hour — and take advantage of the transition from daylight saving time to standard time. The time change is part of a longstanding tradition, in which most Americans push their clocks ahead an hour in the spring (“spring forward”) and turn them back an hour in autumn (“fall back”). The change officially takes place at 2 a.m. daylight saving time on Sunday, Nov. 7 (which instantly becomes 1 a.m. standard time).”
“The researchers, most from the Yale University School of Medicine, said that the growth was likely fueled by changes in levels of certain hormones just after birth. They reported finding expansion in areas of the brain associated with behavior and motivation.”
3 Comments
M.Klein1023 · November 5, 2010 at 10:11 pm
The article about mother’s brains growing was a fun one to read. The idea that moms undergo a physiological transformation which gears them up for motherhood is kind of a charming thought. They mentioned that the degree to which their brain changes is a function of their attitude about the pregnancy. I wonder if a mother’s attitude about her pregnancy has a biological component, or if that is primarily influenced by social/environmental factors. In other words, does a woman have some kind of genetic predisposition to how she will feel about her pregnancy?
Vix · November 6, 2010 at 2:47 am
It seems that Sony and Microsoft are following the footsteps from Nintendo’s Wii by making their own motion controller peripherals. Interesting how things have changed over these years. I haven’t decided whether or not I want the Kinect, yet. But, as the gaming boss of the family, let me decide on that one.
rpoppin · November 7, 2010 at 11:16 pm
I find it incredibly awesome that you posted an article about an xbox 360 peripheral. I also was interested in finding out how Kinect works. Another ingenious way to compress the complex movement of someone into information on a screen – and on your living room’s TV screen no less. A few years ago no one would have ever believed that technology like this was possible, much less available to the average consumer. Even in my short lifetime, the level of technological capability and availability has risen exponentially. This may just be a camera and a mic, but I’m sure that in my lifetime we’ll see games that interact with your CNS directly and completely immerse you in a virtual world. A bit scary, but not a wild though in my opinion.
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