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ICYMI: Salamander bot and allergy cells: Good for something
try{document.getElementById("aol-cms-player-1").style.display="none";}catch(e){}Today on In Case You Missed It: A robotic salamander was invented by the EPFL and has a true to life spinal cord. Also researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine found that immune cells that normally create an over-reaction in some people, resulting in allergies or asthma, may also protect people against a certain kind of fatal infection. Finally, University of Buffalo researchers are making their own lava, you know, for science. As always, please share any interesting tech or science videos you find by using the #ICYMI hashtag on Twitter for @mskerryd.
University of Virginia students give thumbs up to iPods
Matt Deegan at the Daily Progress reports that 67% of UVa's 3000-plus first year students surveyed said they owned an iPod. Students apparently preferred their iPods to MTV and to working out according to that survey, which of course means that someone has to come forward and explain why this is very very bad and will lead to the collapse of western civilization. UVa sociology professor Allison Pugh obligingly worried that the iPod would take the place of pickup basketball games and freshman Cara Magoon went on record as preferring to listen to songs in her head because it's harder for iPod users to "think clearly when they are constantly plugged in." The remaining 67% were too busy having fun and enjoying their music to comment.
