Ooh, my new books are here!

Not to overplay it, but getting my new SPACE and ROBOT books in the mail just cured my baldness and made a warm apple pie appear in the kitchen. 🧙‍♂️

The Little Leonardo's Makerlab books are for young readers (4-8) who are ready for fun science activities. These two books officially arrive in April, but can be preordered now! 🚀

Gibbs Smith: http://bit.ly/2tiRFfS
Indiebound: http://bit.ly/2N3XVkB
Powell’s: http://bit.ly/2N0QQkV and http://bit.ly/2US1tct
Barnes & Noble: http://bit.ly/2N45jwm and http://bit.ly/2Bwn6rN
Amazon: https://amzn.to/2SJSI6T and https://amzn.to/2DxzS9r

And don’t forget your local bookstore or library! 

These guys are freaking me out.

Let's watch robots play soccer!

This is a match at the RoboCup, an international competition for soccer-playing robots. It's insane!

Want to learn a secret?

This is the Chicago Bulls' logo.

But turn it upside down…

…and it's a robot reading a book! (Via.)

Great—a robot that NEVER loses at Rock-Paper-Scissors?

Story here.

Tax the Robots

“I’m the most experienced vice president since anybody.”
Vice President-Elect Joe Biden, interviewed in today's New York Times.

I've been a little concerned that our new executive team might be feeling a surge of unseemly hubris. So I was encouraged to receive this message from the Obama/Biden transition team yesterday:

Dear Bart,

We wanted to tell you about a new feature on Change.gov which lets you bring your ideas directly to the President. It's called the Citizen's Briefing Book, and it's an online forum where you can share your ideas, and rate or offer comments on the ideas of others.

...after the Inauguration, we'll print them out and gather them into a binder like the ones the President receives every day from experts and advisors....your idea could be included in the Citizen's Briefing Book to be delivered to President Obama.

Did you hear that? The ideas submitted by people like us will be in a binder just like the ones the President gets from experts! Chortling with glee, I went to the site, and while I formulated my thoughts, I took a look at the most recent idea that'd been left for the President Elect:
We are doomed.