Genome jousting enlivens a sporting lull

Genome jousting enlivens a sporting lull

Football season in the US ended with the Super Bowl, and baseball season doesn't start until April. But readers yearning for lusty competition were not disappointed in mid-February. Please welcome genomics as the latest blood sport. The sparring began well before the Celera Stalkers and the Public Puritans had their big match — a news conference on 12 February in Washington DC. The whole week b...

Robot Jousting: Final Report

The goal of this project is to create a physical interactive jousting game using two competitive holonomic robots. Each robot consists of a basic twowheeled platform equipped with a joust and a hitbox sensor region (a shield) that will register loss of life points when hit. Through a robot-computer interface, vehicles can be controlled either by a user via a Nintendo Wii Remote or by an AI algo...

A Sporting Chance

Tears flowed like spring rain as the elfin A ustra lian realised that she had be­ come the country’s first track and field medallist for 16 years ... There were women athletes at the Olympics who were distinguished by moustaches and physiques that would alarm Dean Lukin, and it is enough to say that Glynis Nunn was not one of them. She was an a th le te of und im in ished femininity who smiled ...

Ramón Lull and the Infidels

vert to Christianity because of a cognitive defect. They simply were unable to appreciate the vast array of the combinations of God’s or Christ’s virtues. But Lull believed that infidels could be converted if they could be brought to see the combinations of God’s attributes. Further, he thought that a representation of those combinations could be effectively presented by means of appropriate ma...

Retinopathy of prematurity--the "second lull"?