Gajamohan Mohanarajah: The Cubli is a 15 × 15 × 15 cm cube that can jump up and balance on its
corner. Reaction wheels mounted on three faces of the cube rotate at
high angular velocities and then brake suddenly, causing the Cubli to
jump up. Once the Cubli has almost reached the corner stand up position,
controlled motor torques are applied to make it balance on its corner.
In addition to balancing, the motor torques can also be used to achieve a
controlled fall such that the Cubli can be commanded to fall in any
arbitrary direction. Combining these three abilities -- jumping up,
balancing, and controlled falling -- the Cubli is able to 'walk'.
By AVfM: Although
it is difficult to trust mainstream news sources on cases such as this,
the media usually spins whatever tale it wants to tell, this story is
all too believable, and appears to be an excellent expose on how the
entire nation of Australia was fooled… for a while… by a child-abusing mother.
AVfM: Calls aren’t broadcast unless requested by the caller. In between playing pre-recorded music, rants and ads.
FinanceAndLiberty.: Mr.
Grant's lecture summarizes the methods the Federal Reserve uses in its
attempt to manage the economy through the conduct of monetary policy,
dissecting the euphemistic language behind the Fed's actions and
describing in detail the problems with the Fed's endeavor to be an
"economic seer."
By Anja Eriud: Been meaning to do this for a while, and now the time is I believe, right. The Men’s Human Rights Movement
(MHRM) is part of a larger activism spectrum, with feminists on one end
– the nasty end – and Men’s Human Rights Activists on the other end –
the good end. It is an eclectic mix of sites, blogs and youtube channels
gradually coalescing around one single idea:
MEN’S RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS.
The reason I include feminism at the shitty end and
included a shitty end, is because the MHRM is the answer to feminism, is
the positive, and on-the-side-of-the-angels Human Rights Movement, to
feminism’s negative and most definitely on-the-side-of-evil and hatred.
In between these two points is a mixed bag of, first,
pseudo-feminists also known as “useful idiots,” pawns of feminism, who
spout meaningless “women’s rights” rubbish and “I only believe in
equality” crap. Aligned alongside them are the “White Knight” men who champion women, and not just demonstrably good women, but all women, because you see, all women are special simply for being women.
These white knights have other names: manginas, male feminists,
“traditional men.” But I prefer a simpler more descriptive word – fools.
There are some other types in this mess in the middle of the spectrum
that bear closer scrutiny. These are for example, the chameleons, the
shapeshifters, the “whichever way the wind blows” types, one minute
they’re for men’s rights, the next they’re talking about how women are actually “a bit discriminated against” don’t ya know?
Bill Still: Remember Al Gore said that the Arctic Ice would be gone by 2013. Guess what?
Peter Schiff: Cultural Marxism Does Christmas in the USA. Many Americans now
regard a white Santa Clause as being racist. They have a black president
so they need a black Santa Clause. Though some argue that Barack
Obama is like a black Santa Clause, so they don't really need two of them.
Of course, the main difference between the "real Greek" Santa Clause and President 'kill List' Obama is that the real Santa doesn't steal the stuff he gives
away!
By VFM: Undoubtedly this will be treated like slut shaming, but probably by a bunch of really stupid sluts, so who cares….
By Michael Snyder: It
is time to crank up the Looney Tunes theme song because Wall Street has
officially entered crazytown territory. Stocks just keep going higher
and higher, and at this point what is happening in the stock market does
not bear any resemblance to what is going on in the overall economy
whatsoever. So how long can this irrational state of affairs possibly
continue? Stocks seem to go up no matter what happens. If there is
good news, stocks go up. If there is bad news, stocks go up. If there
is no news, stocks go up. On Thursday, the day after Christmas, the Dow
was up another 122 points to another new all-time record high. In
fact, the Dow has had an astonishing 50 record high closes
this year. This reminds me of the kind of euphoria that we witnessed
during the peak of the housing bubble. At the time, housing prices just
kept going higher and higher and everyone rushed to buy before they
were "priced out of the market". But we all know how that ended, and
this stock market bubble is headed for a similar ending.
It is almost as if Wall Street has not learned any lessons from the
last two major stock market crashes at all. Just look at Twitter. At
the current price, Twitter is supposedly worth 40.7 BILLION dollars. But Twitter is not profitable. It is a seven-year-old company that has never made a single dollar of profit.
Not one single dollar.
