3D-Printed Jumping Robot

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/harvard-3d-printed-explosive-jumping-robot


and the paper:


http://bertoldi.seas.harvard.edu/files/bertoldi/files/science_bas.pdf

Causes of Ice Ages

Two publications on ice ages that establishes why "Deniers" - such as myself - are right.


http://www.amazon.com/Ice-Ages-Astronomical-Causes-mechanisms/dp/3540437797/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1439917131&sr=1-1&keywords=ice+ages+and+astronomical+causes


and


http://climate.fas.harvard.edu/files/climate/files/abeouchi_nature_2013.pdf

Open-Source Development Platforms for Drones

If you are looking for mature open-source software development tools for drones , look no further than OpenPilot and Dronecode.


Check them out!


Please note that a commercial pilot's license is required to control a drone.

Exercises in Programming Styles

In this book the author, Cristina Vidiera Lopes, presents 33 different programming styles by solving  a single programming problem, that of identifying the most common words in a text file and sorting them by frequency, using Python.


The code for the book is available @ https://github.com/crista/exercises-in-programming-style.


There is PowerPoint version (in .pdf format) also available @ http://gotocon.com/dl/goto-aar-2013/slides/CristinaVideiraLopes_ExercisesInStyle.pdf