Reality Checks: Dancing Robots, Ahmed Sues, Cupping Olympians and Slow Motion Effects

Elizabeth — August 9, 2016

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Ahmed, who was taken to a police station for building a clock, is suing. Good. (via NYTimes)
Olympians and cupping. (via NPR)
People look guilty in slow motion. (via Ars Technica)
Dancing robots! Getting robots to move and dance is quite difficult, so this is just a delightful mechanical achievement. (via The Mary Sue)

Featured image credit: Sheila Y via flickr

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Elizabeth is a professional belly dancer, a flaky computer scientist, and a returned Peace Corps volunteer. She lives in Georgia (the state of the U.S., not the country) but is nonetheless somehow not a combination of stereotypes from Gone with the Wind and Deliverance. Her personal blog is Coffeefied. Operafied. Fluffified. Beglittered.

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