Miscellaneous #19

Curated Links of the Odd and the Outrageous

Stop assuming so much

The story of VaccinateCA

Proto-cyborg? Biohybrid robot powered by an antagonistic pair of skeletal muscle tissues

GPT-4 could pass part of the Bar Exam

Diffusion Art or Digital Forgery? Investigating Data Replication in Diffusion Models

John Deere’s new ExactShot tech could reduce the amount of starter fertilizer needed for food crops by 60%

Who killed the African electric car?

Why Companies Do “Innovation Theater” Instead of Actual Innovation

The Ethics of Memory Modification: Personal Narratives, Relational Selves and Autonomy

Anomalous motion illusions 35

Self-Organising Textures

This baby factory would let parents edit their child’s genes

This 2019 project has been making the rounds again: human skin phone

Ancient humans had same sense of smell, but different sensitivities

Self-healing concrete: Riddle solved: Why was Roman concrete so durable?

Mysterious Scottish well

Cheeky kea get their own gym in bid to stop them messing with road cones

Wild animals like to run in hamster wheels too

How honey bees make fast and accurate decisions

Knowing when to quit

Furby 1998 source code

Definition of “bikeshedding”