How Boston Dynamics Taught Its Robots to Dance - IEEE Spectrum

I recently became very interested in robots when orthopedic surgeon Dr. Philip Andrawis explained that I needed a partial knee replacement. The good doctor said that I should not be concerned as he would be assisted by a robot.

In the days of my youth, Shakespeare was the center of English literature and thus of English-speaking culture. I turned 20 years old when Shakespeare became 400! We started high school with some mild and weepy astrology, the ‘star-struck love’ of Romeo and Juliet.

In the late 1970’s the Space Division of Rockwell International was under contract to the NASA Johnson Space Center, JSC to deliver a fleet of spacecraft, Shuttle Orbiters. By 1979 the first space rated flight vehicle designated OV-102, Columbia was scheduled to be on station at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Columbia was scheduled to launch in late 1979. It was delivered there on March 25, 1979. There was a problem though, the vehicle was not complete. It had been “shipped short”. There were 7800 tiles missing from the 31,000 that should have been installed, in addition to this hardware shortage of the installed tiles there was a question of their strength and ability to stay in-place.

My recent PV Pulse piece on landscape photography, covered how I became a full time photog with key images of the Southwest, Iceland, Italy and the South Bay. My most recent images, of the Pacific Northwest, are a record of my three week photo tour through coastal Oregon (and Washington).

Did you know that the Palos Verdes Peninsula has its own television studio? The studio, located on Hawthorne Boulevard in Rancho Palos Verdes, broadcasts the educational TV station, RPVtv, and the government TV station, PVPtv, which you may have noticed if you have flipped though your channels on Frontier or Cox Cable.

Abalone Cove, who created Thee?

Heaven and Earth interfere with each other

Giving birth to a masterpiece of infinite love

Landing in Rancho Palos Verdes

It was a sunny Spring morning when the married couple Anhthao Bui and Dan Lambert began their first day of volunteer work for the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy (PVPLC for short). Their job was to monitor me (that is, to identify and count as many members of my species as possible). Who am I? I am the elusive cactus wren, but you can call me “C.W.”

Building on a forty-year tradition, the Palos Verdes Peninsula Rotary Club will honor nine outstanding local teachers at their signature Educator of the Year event on Thursday, February 4. Rather than the traditional gala dinner, this year’s ceremony will be presented virtually.