Locomotion News

 
ZBoard: The Weight-Sensing Electric Skateboard From The Future
Forbes
A more elegant form of locomotion has arrived. The ZBoard is an electric skateboard that responds to a rider's weight distribution, (lean on the front pad to accelerate, the rear pad to brake) helping commuters arrive without the glaze of sweat that ...

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National Geographic
Evolutionary Flop: Early 4-Footed Land Animal Was No Walker?
National Geographic
Instead, the dog-size Ichthyostega likely flopped on land, using only two of its four stubby legs for locomotion. One of our most distant ancestors, Ichthyostega is also one of the earliest tetrapods known to have crept onto land.
First creature to walk on land 'dragged itself along' on two feet - like it ...Daily Mail
First Walking Land Animal Demoted to MudskipperThe Epoch Times
First Terrestrial Animals Shuffled Onto LandDiscovery News
Wired News -Scientific Computing
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Let's get moving: Unraveling how locomotion starts
Science Daily (press release)
While experiments in the 1970s using electrical brain stimulation identified areas of the brain responsible for starting locomotion, the precise neuron-by-neuron pathway has not been described in any vertebrate -- until now. To find this pathway, ...

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NME.com
Kylie Minogue's new single, "Timebomb"
Tulsa World (blog)
On June 3, Kylie -- whose biggest mainstream success stateside came in the late 80s with "Locomotion" then more than 10 years later with "Can't Get You Out of My Head" -- will perform at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert, according to Billboard.com.
TICKING TWITTER ENDS WITH TIMEBOMB – Hot new Unexpected video and single for ...EOTM! Online (blog)
K25 surprise: Kylie Minogue sets off a "Timebomb"Straight.com (Blogs) (blog)

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Conditioning and Winning, Lasix-Free
New York Times (blog)
During their 60-million-year evolution, horses came to require near-constant forage, friends and locomotion to maintain health and vigor of wind and limb. Doug O'Neill's Kentucky Derby victory places him — and his troubled record — center stage at a ...


 
Buster Posey Was One Year Ago
Baseball Prospectus
Support collisions fine, don't support collisions fine, but we can all support Buster Posey and bipedal locomotion. By coincidence, today I came across a sports column written about the 1979 All-Star game. The National League won, and Tom Loomis of the ...

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Tetrapods actually couldn't walk, new research reveals
Herald Sun
The computer model revealed that the creature wouldn't have been able to move its hip and shoulder joints very much at all and that its limbs couldn't rotate along their long axis, a movement that's essential for locomotion in today's land animals.

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