Swarm-Bot: A New Distributed Robotic Concept

Swarm-Bot: A New Distributed Robotic Concept
Francesco Mondada, Giovanni C. Pettinaro, Andre Guignard, Ivo W. Kwee, Dario Floreano, Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Stefano Nolfi, Luca Maria Gambardella and Marco Dorigo
AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS Volume 17, Numbers 2-3, 193-221, doi: 10.1023/B:AURO.0000033972.50769.1c

Evolving Self-Organizing Behaviors for a Swarm-Bot

Evolving Self-Organizing Behaviors for a Swarm-Bot

Marco Dorigo, Vito Trianni, Erol Şahin, Roderich Groß, Thomas H. Labella, Gianluca Baldassarre, Stefano Nolfi, Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Francesco Mondada and Dario Floreano, et al.

AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS Volume 17, Numbers 2-3, 223-245, doi: 10.1023/B:AURO.0000033973.24945.f3

Sar Rabindranath Duval // Jesus & Mo &Joe

Case report

This is from a retweet posted by Shirley Wu. (initial by 23science

You can grab the paper here and take your time to read it carefully and plan how to replicate the case.

I think it could be an easy to perform experiment : “THE UNSUCCESSFUL SELF-TREATMENT OF A CASE OF “WRITER’S BLOCK”, Dennis Upper, J Appl Behav Anal. 1974 Fall; 7(3): 497. doi: 10.1901/jaba.1974.7-497b.

Gilles-Eric Seralini vs Marc Fellous

Quiconque a recours aux tribunaux pour régler un diffèrent scientifique est un looser de première classe. Ainsi, après avoir été élevé au rang de chevalier de l’Ordre National (français) du Mérite sur proposition du ministère de l’écologie, Gilles-Eric Seralini se hisse par ses propres moyens au rang de looser scientifique.

Mes félicitations pour ce couronnement de carrière, je doute qu’il puisse faire mieux (enfin, peut-être qu’il peut mieux faire, en faisant des stats ?)

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Retinoic acid-dependent establishment of positional information in the hindbrain was conserved during vertebrate evolution

Retinoic acid-dependent establishment of positional information in the hindbrain was conserved during vertebrate evolution

Akiko Ishioka, Tomoko Jindo, Toshihiro Kawanabe, Kohei Hatta, Mst. Shahnaj Parvin, Masataka Nikaido, 2, Yuri Kuroyanagi, Hiroyuki Takeda and Kyo Yamasu

Developmental Biology, Article in Press, Corrected Proof doi:10.1016/j.ydbio.2010.10.011

Protein Evolution via Amino Acid and Codon Elimination

Protein Evolution via Amino Acid and Codon Elimination

Lise Goltermann, Marie Sofie Yoo Larsen, Rajat Banerjee, Andreas C. Joerger, Michael Ibba, Thomas Bentin

PLoS ONE 5(4): e10104. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010104

Advent Calendar

What a wonderful starter for an Advent Calendar!

Richard Dawkins about Christopher Hitchens:

Christopher Hitchens: my hero of 2010
A gentleman and a truly formidable debater, Christopher Hitchens is a giant of the mind and a model of courage

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Le racket des drongos de la ‘Ndrangheta

Un drongo. Notez l’oeil fourbe et le bec vicieux…

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Fitting a biological nanopore into a man-made one, new ways to analyze DNA I had a discussion about that kind of constructs, but I can’t remind in which forum/blog…

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Why is Cthulhu on this 300-year-old gravestone?, Reverend Ichabod Wiswall (1637-1700) !

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Irreducible Incoherence and Intelligent Design – a look into the conceptual toolbox of a pseudoscience, by Maarten Boudry

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Ants save the queen!

From the flood…