3 trillion trees – (Please! – don’t say it’s more than enough)

FromRachel Ehrenberg’s “Trillions of trees” published on Nature

Jim Morrison on why fat is beautiful

It’s Singapore’s National Sex Holiday

(the song not really arousing and rather sexist)

Do it for Denmark

First Person View Drone Racing

OSGEMEOS Parallel Connection on Times Square billboards

by Brazilian artist duo OSGEMEOS.

From Parallel Connection project

NASA’s views on drones

See more at NASA Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Traffic Management Convention or UTM 2015

men at work – for how long

Check this study on “THE FUTURE OF EMPLOYMENT: HOW SUSCEPTIBLE ARE JOBS TO
COMPUTERISATION?” by Oxford Martin’s Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne.

And some say “The Age of the Robot Worker Will Be Worse for Men” – I hope men acceptit as they always asked women to accept sexist culture.

Walt Whitman’s “A noiseless, patient spider” – animated

A NOISELESS PATIENT SPIDER

A noiseless, patient spider,
I mark’d, where, on a little promontory, it stood, isolated;
Mark’d how, to explore the vacant, vast surrounding,
It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself;
Ever unreeling them — ever tirelessly speeding them.

And you, O my Soul, where you stand,
Surrounded, surrounded, in measureless oceans of space,
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, — seeking the spheres, to connect them;
Till the bridge you will need, be form’d — till the ductile anchor hold;
Till the gossamer thread you fling, catch somewhere, O my Soul.

Invisible Computer Code Runs Your Life

Video works well as a teaser for the rather long, good read “What is Code” by Paul Ford

updating our maps for a new climate

Shrinking Ice cap in the artic are re-draqing maps.

Other geographical updates likely to be needed wht we face new rain, temperature and subsequent environmental changes.

Robots being bullied

This video show kids being bullies in a mall – victim this time was a robot.

It may relate to another recent case of a robot being vandalized in his hitchthiking trip.

For the time being such experiments are very useful to bring light to human behavior. Let’s say someone argues that as many other human behaviour this might be one society opts to discourage. And as in many other cases, way to set limits is to grant victims rights not be be molested.

As we are likely to see such events recurring more often, robot rights defendants may have a growing number of examples on their side.