Sand Flea is an 11-lb robot with one trick up its sleeve: Normally it drives like an RC car, but when it needs to it can jump 30 feet into the air. An onboard stabilization system keeps it oriented during flight to improve the view from the video uplink and to control landings. Current development [...]

It's an old joke, but it goes something like this: ‎One man says, "My brother is impossible. He thinks he’s a chicken." The second man asks, "Why don’t you send him to a psychiatrist?" The first man answers, "I can’t. I need the eggs."

Marko Kloos writes, "Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those [...]

"And it also made me realize the impact children have on people's lives when in contact with them. I hear a lot of things about over-population and some of the negative response to people having children is simply baffling to me. I think life without children wouldn't be a life at all. In a world [...]

From a recent family portrait shoot:

"Romney’s choice of Mankiw, one of the leading architects of and apologists for the crisis, as his leading economic advisor would be a superb issue for Obama to use in his reelection campaign but for one tiny problem. The Obama administration’s policies on financial regulation are created by the likes of Rubin, Summers, Geithner, and [...]