Just saw a guy absolutely nail Yukon Cornelius—'Sil-verrrr!' His wild imitation had me laughing out loud. Instant flashback to cozy '60s TV nights, stop-motion puppets, and misfit dreams. Pure nostalgic joy! pic.twitter.com/TmeEovG3HD
This projection mapping installation by Todd Moyer Designs was inspired by the machinery of a fabric loom. Projections create the illusion of rolling spools of yarn and woven textiles, while colorful laser beams emulate thread. Illoominated II was on display at the Portland Winter Light Festival 2025.
Engineers at the University of Science and Technology of China, this biomimetic soft robot moves like an octopus tentacle. SpiRobs can bend, twist, and grasp a variety of objects. The mechanical arm is capable of lifting up to 260 times its weight while having a gentle enough grip to handle fragile objects.
Headachesound is a self-contained gadget for making turntable scratch effects. You can load it with your samples and beats, then jog its high-sensitivity mini turntable to manipulate sounds. Music producer Mr Viktor got his hands on a prototype and put it through its paces.
In 2013, the state passed a reform to require teachers to understand the science of reading (basically, phonics), deploy literacy coaches to schools, identify students struggling to read early and hold back students in third grade who weren’t ready to advance.
Alabama, Tennessee and Louisiana have now done much the same, and have also made gains.
The original source of all this was a 2002 reading law in Florida that boosted student achievement in the Sunshine State.
Meanwhile, Oregon, with some of the highest per-student spending, run for over a decade by a one of the most progressive Democratically controlled state legislatures in both the house and senate, continues to double-down on proven failed teaching methods and suspended all education standards to graduate in order to promote racial equality.
While Oregon is passing increasing numbers of functionally illiterate children on to adulthood, kids in Mississippi can read, and other countries children are doing this:
Uniq volumetric puzzles are made from soft PVC and molded into sculptural pieces. The first set of puzzles feature curvy, organic shapes and 30 to 70 pieces each
It’s fun on TV until you’re stuck living with it each day
Interesting little post from a local who’s calling things as they are and have been. Is Portland the claimed Trump ‘war zone’. No. Have we been breeding a violent protesters for years who actually commit a fair amount of violence? Absolutely yes.