Chaos Theory and Tacocopter

Animal Intelligence

• "The Brains of the Animal Kingdom". "New research shows that we have grossly underestimated both the scope and the scale of animal intelligence. Primatologist Frans de Waal on memory-champ chimps, tool-using elephants and rats capable of empathy."

Computing

• Simulating Tearable Cloth in Java Script
• three.js. "JavaScript 3D library: The aim of the project is to create a lightweight 3D library with a very low level of complexity — in other words, for dummies. The library provides <canvas>, <svg>, CSS3D and WebGL renderers."

Arduino

• "Your robot army, controlled by Arduino and Bluetooth". Bluetooth plus Arduino means phone controlled EVERYTHING!

Gaming

• BananaBread. WebGL and Javascript multiplayer FPS that runs on Firefox.

• Unreal 3 In the Browser.

• Terasology. Minecraft meets Dwarf Fortress. And open source!

Realtime Linux

• "Intro to Real-Time Linux for Embedded Developers"

• Xenomai: Real-Time Framework for Linux. "Xenomai is a real-time development framework cooperating with the Linux kernel, in order to provide a pervasive, interface-agnostic, hard real-time support to user-space applications, seamlessly integrated into the GNU/Linux environment."

Languages

• "A Criticism of Ruby"

Chaos Theory

• omegatau podcast on chaos. Very good.

Ethics

• "Entire library journal editorial board resigns, citing 'crisis of conscience' after death of Aaron Swartz"

• Stephen Pinker on Emotion, Reason and Moral Progress. 20 minute video.

Mental Floss

• Mental Floss on Youtube. Hosted by John Green.

Racism and Politics

• "Alabama lawmaker's email: 'Slave-holding, murdering, adulterous, baby-raping, snaggle-toothed kin folk'"

UAVs

• Unmanned Vehicle University. Offers MS and PhDs. Looks like a for-profit and otherwise shady. Trashes on ABET in it's About page but doesn't actually say who they wish to accredit them. Podcast I found this in.

• Tacocopter