Bats can learn to mimic specific sounds, which puts them into an elite group of animals capable of this. Studying how bats can copy noises could help us learn more about humans’ unique capacity for speech and language. (1)
Listen. Speak.
Oh child.
How did you learn to speak?
If not by listening to people who didn’t know how to?
A team has developed a new method to date archaeological pottery using fat residues remaining in the pot wall from cooking. The method means prehistoric pottery can be dated with remarkable accuracy, sometimes to the window of a human life span. Pottery found in Shoreditch, London proven to be 5,500 years old and shows the vibrant urban area was once used by established farmers who ate cow, sheep and goat dairy products as a central part of their diet. (1)
Cooking.
Eating.
Dead men.
Laughters echoing in the night.
Full lives.
Hungry people.
Dust.
Silence.
Steaks smelling great.
Crying…
Who is crying?
Ask.
Who is really cooking?
(I am not afraid)
(You should be)
New research indicates mantis shrimp use path integration to find their way back to their burrows after leaving to seek food or mates. That means they can track their distance and direction from their starting point. A series of creative experiments revealed that to do that, they rely on a hierarchy of cues from the sun, polarized light patterns, and their internal senses. (1)
Going home.
From a place far far away.
Not because you understand what home is.
But because you feel it.
And you know that you do not belong there.
But that home belongs to you.
How can you ever leave the cradle?
If you are still feeling its love?
A shrimp can get it.
But you must do more.
And forget about home.
And live alone.
And some day.
Maybe.
You will remember.
And you will know again.
And only then, home will be home.
And you will go back.
Crying.
Not because you saw home again.
But because you will realize…
That you never left.
Researchers have developed an AI-powered, smart insole that instantly turns any shoe into a portable gait-analysis laboratory. (1)
Walk.
There is no point in analyzing your gait.
For that would need you to stop walking.
Walk.
At the end you will reach the end.
And at the end you will stop and die.
(Like Olson did. Do you understand now Garati?)
Walk
And right after the finish line, keep on walking.
Do you see?
Just walk.
It is the only way to question why you started…
And decide not to start walking in the first place…
PS. Tribute to the Long Walk by Backman.
In a lab at Columbia University, engineers have developed a strange yet clever way for robots to feel: Let’s call it the finger of light. It’s got a 3D-printed skeleton embedded with 32 photodiodes and 30 adjacent LEDs, over which is laid a squishy skin of reflective silicone, which keeps the device’s own light in and outside light out. When the robot finger touches an object, its soft exterior deforms, and the photodiodes in the skeleton detect changing light levels from the LEDs. This allows the system to determine where contact is being made with the finger, and the intensity of that pressure. In other words, if you shook this robot’s hand, it wouldn’t feel it, in a traditional sense; it would see it. (1)
So delicate. So soft.
Feeling without feeling.
Touching with light.
Knowing without knowing.
Living without life.
Let the robots touch you.
Underneath the cold light.
Your grandmother’s hands holding tight…
