This video of an animatronic robot baby defines “uncanny valley”
This video of an animatronic robot baby defines “uncanny valley”
Sunday: Minataur and Power Ranger are Friends (Taken with picplz.)
Brooklyn art museum for first Saturdays
Tech decks galore
It's snowing! Want to go sledding?
Click the link above for a list of “snow day sites” through the NYC Parks Department—they offer free sleds and hot chocolate, along with other winter-weather activities.
We’re reposting this because today is National Hugging Day! So be sure to hug extra (a lot extra) today.
Phantom Tollbooth on the Big Screen!
This Monday, January 23rd, Big Movies for Little Kids is serving up one of my childhood favorite books and films, The Phantom Tollbooth. Animation master Chuck Jones made this children’s classic book come alive on the screen for all of children of the 70′s. (1970; USA; rated G; color animation; 90 minutes)
Bidding adieu to Rick Perry with this Danny Shanahan cartoon from September. For more political coverage, visit our new Political Scene website: http://politics.newyorker.com
These are amazing: Scanning Around With Gene: Danger Around Every Corner
Beyonce and Jay-Z ostentatiously welcomed their daughter Blue Ivy into the world last night
The couple rented out the entire fourth floor of the hospital to create a private wing for themselves (to the tune of $1.3 million), so presumably any commoners giving labor at Lenox Hill this weekend were in tighter quarters. E! notes that “after 11 p.m., even doctors and nurses were barred from entering the fourth floor, prompting one doc to complain that he had patients to see.”
