Fun in Expression. Photos. 'Lit Nobel to Alice Munro, 82' 'elephants get point' 'surprisingly simple robots' 'longest talkathon'

"Literature Nobel to Alice Munro, 82"

"elephants get the point of pointing"

"surprisingly simple robots"

"let's share"

"longest talkathlon"

“how do I look?”

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Alice Munro, Canadian short story writer, 82, wins Nobel Prize in literature
"When I began writing there was a very small community of Canadian writers and little attention was paid by the world. Now Canadian writers are read, admired and respected around the globe. I'm so thrilled to be chosen as this year's Nobel Prize for Literature recipient. I hope it fosters further interest in all Canadian writers. I also hope that this brings further recognition to the short story form."

With no help, elephants Get the Point of Pointing

Elephants spontaneously get the gist of human pointing and can use it as a cue for finding food, researchers report.
So did the meaning of pointing-like behaviors described in a 2008 study of wild dolphins.

Surprisingly simple scheme for self-assembling robots
Known as M-Blocks, the robots are cubes with no external moving parts. Nonetheless, they’re able to climb over and around one another, leap through the air, roll across the ground, and even move while suspended upside down from metallic surfaces.
Inside each M-Block is a flywheel that can reach speeds of 20,000 revolutions per minute; when the flywheel is braked, it imparts its angular momentum to the cube. On each edge of an M-Block, and on every face, are cleverly arranged permanent magnets that allow any two cubes to attach to each other.

"Let's share" - Space at Gibraltar International Airport is so contested that cars sit sitting idling while plane cross the main highways.

Cruz's talkathlon was one of the longest in Senate history
Length of speech:
Cruz: Spoke for 21 hours and 19 minutes, until noon.
Paul: Spoke for 12 hours and 52 minutes, until 12:39 a.m. EST.
Davis: Spoke for 11 hours, 39 minutes, until 10:39 p.m. CST.

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Images courtesy Peter Morrison / AP, Dai Kurokawa / European Pressphoto Agency, tripandtravelblog.com, malagaweb.com, C-SPAN, Encyclopaedia of Babies of Beautiful Wild Animals, and Giant panda cubs wallpaper