In which a robot hair cutting machine is constructed and has its initial use. Thirteen minutes, moderately entertaining, especially the programmed robotic small-talk. Interesting to see how activities undertaken by humans are so difficult to replicate, and often require completely different methods in order to do so. Of great comfort to hair-dressers and barbers everywhere.
You can drive pretty much all the way from the northern to southern extremities of both American continents, but you can do drive between the two due to a 100km stretch of land that seemingly will not be traversed by the final link of highway. This video explains why.
I really don’t like generational claims to exceptionalism, but if there’s an aspect of life that is unique to our age it is the scope and speed of change in society. Here’s a video about the locations of video rental change Blockbuster in the US between 1986 and 2019. If your attention span doesn’t extend …
In Australia take-home sales of alcohol from liquor retailers are up 27% (though places at which alcohol is consumed are closed, so those sales, of course, are down). Part of Malcolm Gladwell’s book Talking To Strangers deals with the effects of alcohol. Given what seems to be an increased domestic consumption of alcohol in frequency, …
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