According to Darren Naish in his book All Yesterdays, this is what a modern baboon looks like when reconstructed from it's skeleton using the same techniques artists use to reconstruct dinosaurs from their skeletons.
(H/T to Quora for this: Â http://www.contriving.net/link/bm)
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Snake robots are cool
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Snake robots are cool
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Neat. Via +Pyry Pakkanen.
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It's not uncommon for me to get stuck on a programming problem and go start composing a forum post explaining my problems and asking for some help.
In the process of explaining my problem in enough detail and in a structured-enough manner to explain it to other people I realize the solution to my issue.
This also happens when I write docstrings.
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A great little scifi story about the changes in store for humanity.
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The Gentle Seduction by Marc Stiegler First Published by Analog …
The Gentle Seduction. by. Marc Stiegler. First Published by Analog Magazine in 1989. He worked with computers; she worked with trees, and the flowers that took hold on the sides of the Mountain. She w…
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I posted this earlier today with just one photo, but I added a closer photo and no one knew what it was earlier…
So, one last try: Â Can anyone tell me what kind of tree this is? Â I'm located in Missouri, USA.
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Isaac Newton’s occult studies – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Newton’s writings suggest that one of the main goals of his alchemy may have been the discovery of The Philosopher’s Stone (a material believed to turn base metals into gold), and perhaps to a lesser …
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