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Idiot Verse by Keaton Henson

Edit Huffington Post 02 Jun 2016
"I am willing to pay due respect to the poetry of George Meredith, of Thomas Hardy, of DH Lawrence as part of their oeuvre, without conceding that it is as good as it might have been had they chosen to dedicate their whole lives to that form of art.". - T.S. Eliot, Introduction to A Choice of Kipling's Verse. In 2010, Keaton Henson made the album, Dear ... before transitioning into lilting, waltzing dactyls in the next poem, 'Richmond'.....

Mantis Shrimp Inspires Next Generation of Ultra-Strong Materials (University of California, Riverside)

Edit Public Technologies 31 May 2016
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside and Purdue University are one step closer to developing super strong composite materials, thanks to the mantis shrimp, a small, multicolored marine crustacean that crushes the shells of its prey using a fist-like appendage called a dactyl club ... The dactyl club can reach an acceleration of 10,000g, unleashing a barrage of impacts with the speed of a .22 caliber bullet....

Possibly unique design feature discovered in mantis shrimp (Purdue University)

Edit Public Technologies 31 May 2016
The 'dactyl club' can reach an acceleration of 10,000 g, unleashing a barrage of ferocious impacts with the speed of a .22 caliber bullet ... The researchers used an optical microscope to discover the herringbone-like pattern in a cross section of the impact region, located in the outer-most layer of the dactyl club....

Mantis shrimp inspires next generation of ultra-strong materials

Edit Science Daily 31 May 2016
Researchers are one step closer to developing super strong composite materials, thanks to the mantis shrimp, a small, multicolored marine crustacean that crushes the shells of its prey using a fist-like appendage called a dactyl club. Their latest research describes for the first time a unique herringbone structure, not previously reported in nature, within the appendage's outer layer ... ....

Stewart’s Shops Gives Back to Your Community! (Stewart's Shops Corporation)

Edit Public Technologies 25 May 2016
(Source. Stewart's Shops Corporation). 05/23/16. Last week was a busy time for non-profit organizations in our communities as there were numerous fundraisers taking place ... Stewart's Shops and related family foundations support local charities, donating $7.5 million annually. Below is a list of organizations that received support the week of May 16th. Learn more about our contributions and how to request a donation here ... Dactyl Foundation....

The Man Who is Keeping 1990s Virtual Reality Machines Alive

Edit Kotaku 23 May 2016
The booth has just opened, and the first members of the public to arrive are having a go on Dactyl Nightmare, one of the earliest VR games ... If one really is kaput, I could be witnessing the last ever two-player game of Dactyl Nightmare ... Then he passes me the two-button gun controller, explaining the controls for Dactyl Nightmare as he does so, before finally clicking the VR helmet into place over my noggin....

Will Virtual Reality Change Your Life?

Edit Rollingstone 23 May 2016
We take an inside look at Oculus Rift and the virtual reality revolution. Illustration by Eddie Guy. For decades, virtual reality has failed to deliver on its great promise ... Finally, my brain has to interrupt. Dude, you're not really here. Sidebar ... Sidebar ... Patrick T ... The long road to today's virtual reality is littered with clunky arcade games (Dactyl Nightmare) and goofy gear (Nintendo's Virtual Boy) that never delivered ... Sidebar ...   ... Dr....

Celgene Launches Fictional Film, Millefeuille, to Shed New Light on Complex Psoriasis Challenges (Celgene Corporation)

Edit Public Technologies 17 May 2016
A substantial number of patients with psoriatic arthritis suffer from enthesitis and dactylitis, both of which cause soreness and pain, heavily impacting daily activities which we normally take for granted, like showering, bending, getting dressed or even chopping vegetables, like we see in the film"....

Canberra International Music Festival director Roland Peelman on theatre in music

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 22 Apr 2016
 . ON THEATRE IN MUSIC. CANBERRA INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL. Battle of the Sexes. Three Delicious Moments in Opera's History Advertisement. Friday,  May 6, 7.30pm. Fitters' Workshop ... before and after ... You might well say that theatre and music had always been willing bed partners and that the rolling hexameters of the oldest epics in Western civilisation were once sung by a mythical bard called Homer ... ....

Recommendations on How to Stay Prepared in the Workplace (Smithsonian National Museum of African Art)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Apr 2016
Hexameter And you'll find five various kinds of defeat patterns that are frequent the toes can happen in ... Dactyl (Dactylic) - One accented syllable accompanied by two weak syllables ... figures, Together with OF the FORest, With all, - From Wadsworth Longfellowis ' Hiawatha's Melody ' An Hexameter The tal SIGHED and tals we OBSERVED ... Yeatsis ' Oisin's Wanderings ' A Dactylic This is actually the FORest prim- Eval....

UTSA Honors student accepted as a visiting student at Oxford University (UTSA - The University of Texas at San Antonio)

Edit Public Technologies 12 Apr 2016
(Source. UTSA - The University of Texas at San Antonio). By Nicole Duff Linda McNulty, UTSA Honors Student. Honors sophomore Linda McNulty has been accepted into the Visiting Student Program at the distinguished University of Oxford ... McNulty, who will attend Oxford for the Michaelmas Term, which runs from October to December, will take tutorial classes in Greek Art and Archaeology and Early Greek Hexameter Poetry ... Original Document....

After resisting it for so long, here's why I'm boarding the VR bandwagon

Edit TechRadar 01 Apr 2016
What you are about to read has been written by Mr Biffo, the creative force behind the 90s Teletext videogames magazine Digitiser. He now runs the show at digitiser2000.com. Virtual Reality, then. I wasn't sold ... I would peddle this opinion at banquets and society balls the length and breadth of these isles, regaling baronesses and sea captains with my witty anecdotes about how Dactyl Nightmare gave me motion sickness. Well ... I can take it ... ....

10 Ways NVIDIA is Making VR a Reality (Nvidia Corporation)

Edit Public Technologies 16 Mar 2016
(Source. Nvidia Corporation). My first impression of virtual reality was back in the early 1990s, in a pod playing Dactyl Nightmare in a Dave & Busters restaurant. It was less compelling by today's standards, but enough to hook me and a whole generation of future engineers and gamers. That generation has come of age, and so has VR. Every tradeshow, every product launch and every news beat has a VR angle ... Here are 10 examples. ... They include....
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