Tag: bird

Lost in a metaphor

27 October, 2011 (12:00) | Wax Poetic

I’m like a car Once you get me to start I’ll take you near or far Just keep refueling my heart.   Cars are like birds. Achieving speeds so fast Able to make the sharpest turns but if not alert, it crashes into glass.   A bird is like a child They’ll go anywhere without […]

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duck duck goose

1 July, 2011 (12:00) | FYI/DIY

Warning, you may not want to watch this.  You may not want to let your kids watch this either.  I’m going to talk about the genitalia of the duck.  Specifically, the male duck.  It’s crazy.  The claim is that female ducks have been evolving to prevent the male from impregnating them by forming twists in […]

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The giant robot with bird-like head, he is our friend

20 May, 2011 (12:00) | Geeked Out

The folks at Festo have created a mechanical bird that is as graceful as the real thing. Our technology is not just getting smaller and cheaper, but it’s getting smoother. Soon, we won’t be able to tell the robots from living creatures.

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