A Nifty Way to View Rock Art

I just discovered Photosynth, a photography software package and online gallery from Microsoft. It turns out to be a really good way to display rock art. It stitches all the photos together for you, and allows you to zoom in on details. The whole panel or gallery of rock art can potentially be linked together and it gives you a good context for seeing how the whole is laid out, while still allowing you to look at the details if you wish.

I put up several "synths", but a good example is the one from the Grand Gallery in Horseshoe Canyon.

Robot Achieves Scientific First

This is really astounding if you stop to think about it. The robot formulated a hypothesis and carried out a series of experiments designed to test that hypothesis resulting in new scientific knowledge. All without any input from his human designers. This is amazing! It's not just manual workers who stand to lose jobs to machines, but we Ph.D.'s may need to start worrying. Fortunately, I do have tenure.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f2b97d9a-1f96-11de-a7a5-00144feabdc0.html