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bomberman evolved is an attempt to play the classic game by moving around a room to control your characters on the screen. a camera mounted overhead tracks the movements of two colored hats, and uses the input to play the game. it's got a long way to go, but if things like ddr and the wii are any indication, people want more physical interaction with their games.
history channel documentary on the origin of eyes. part 2/part 3/part 4/part 5
just as interest in user-generated content in video games is heating up, a team of researchers at the university of central florida has released an experimental multiplayer game in which content items compete with each other in an evolutionary arms race to satisfy the players. as a result, particle system-based weapons, which are the evolving class of content, continually invent their own new behaviors based on what users liked in the past. does the resulting experience in this game, called galactic arms race, suggest that evolutionary algorithms may be the key to automated content generation in future multiplayer gaming and mmos? it's free to play grab it at http://gar.eecs.ucf.edu/index.php?content=main
history channel documentary on the origin of eyes
history channel documentary on the origin of eyes.
i'm just gonna let this video speak for itself.
short clip of a cat morphing into a tiger. thanks aecon.
a halo fan took the halo 2 game and recreated the entire gladiator opening battle sequence and dubbed all the audio from the movie onto it. it's hard for this video not to get you excited about the halo movie coming out.
elaine morgan is a tenacious proponent of the aquatic ape hypothesis: the idea that humans evolved from primate ancestors who dwelt in watery habitats. hear her spirited defense of the idea -- and her theory on why mainstream science doesn't take it seriously.
finches on the galapagos islands that inspired charles darwin to develop the concept of evolution are now helping confirm it - by evolving. a medium sized species of darwin's finch has evolved a smaller beak to take advantage of different seeds just two decades after the arrival of a larger rival for its original food source. the altered beak size shows that species competing for food can undergo evolutionary change, said peter grant of princeton university, lead author of the report appearing in friday's issue of the journal science. grant has been studying darwin's finches for decades and previously recorded changes responding to a drought that altered what foods were available. it's rare for scientists to be able to document changes in the appearance of an animal in response to competition. more often it is seen when something moves into a new habitat or the climate changes and it has to find new food or resources, said robert fleischer, a geneticist at the smithsonian's national museum of natural history and national zoo. this was certainly a documented case of microevolution, added fleischer, who was not part of grant's research. grant studied the finches on the galapagos island daphne, where the medium ground finch, geospiza fortis, faced no competition for food, eating both small and large seeds. in 1982 a breeding population of large ground finches, geospiza magnirostris, arrived on the island and began competing for the large seeds of the tribulus plants. g. magnirostris was able to break open and eat these seeds three times faster than g. fortis, depleting the supply of these seeds. in 2003 and 2004 little rain fell, further reducing the food supply. the result was high mortality among g. fortis with larger beaks, leaving a breeding population of small-beaked g. fortis that could eat the seeds from smaller plants and didn't have to compete with the larger g. magnirostris for large seeds. that's a form of evolution known as character displacement, where natural selection produces an evolutionary change in the next generation, grant explained in a recorded statement made available by science. the research was supported by the national science foundation. source
a leading conservationist has called on wildlife groups to leave giant pandas alone and let them die out "with a degree of dignity". bbc wildlife presenter chris packham says it's the pandas own fault that they have not adapted to the modern environment and they are only surviving because of human intervention, the daily mail reports. "here is a species that, of its own accord, has gone down an evolutionary cul-de-sac," packham said. "it's not a strong species. "i reckon we should pull the plug ... let them go, with a degree of dignity." he said the pandas' "cute" looks and demeanor has caused valuable funding to be diverted from helping animals that have a chance of surviving without human assistance in the future. his comments were criticized by the world wildlife fund (wwf), which uses a picture of a giant panda as its logo. wwf conservation science adviser dr mark wright said the comments were "daft" because pandas have adapted to the environment. "it's like saying the blue whale is in an evolutional cul-de-sac because it lives in the ocean," dr wright said. "pandas face extinction because of poaching and humans moving into their habitat. if left alone, then they function perfectly well." according to the wwf, there is believed to be more than 1600 giant pandas in the wild. the organization said the panda population currently lives in about 20 small regions in china. source
