Game teaches kids programming basics without screens

Each episode in the series runs about 11 minutes and focuses on key concepts including analysis, combination, abstraction, ...

The Sheep Detectives attempts to redeem Hollywood’s worst genre: the talking-animal movie

Is this the least annoying talking-animal movie since the Babe series?!
Dexerto

Immortal snail meme turned into desktop game where you only get one life

Don’t Touch The Snail, developed by PlasticBagHandMan drops a snail onto your desktop as it slithers closer to your cursor ...

Punch, the Lonely Monkey, Is Growing Up. He’s Still a Star.

The macaque, now 9 months old, has been attracting tens of thousands of visitors to a small Japanese zoo. He ignores the ...
NME

Tom Rowley on how playing with Arctic Monkeys shaped his debut album: “You come across some fucking mad people”

As a founding member of Milburn in the early ’00s, Rowley was a central figure in the Sheffield indie scene that also birthed the likes of Arctic Monkeys and Reverend & The Makers. “Everything was ...
Phys.org

Monkeys navigate a virtual forest with thought alone, pushing brain-computer interfaces beyond the lab

As a part of a study testing out a new type of implanted brain-computer interface (BCI), three rhesus monkeys controlled movements in a virtual reality (VR) world using only brain signals. The study, ...
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Baby monkey smiles more when playing together

Baby monkey smiles more when playing together This video shows a baby monkey playing closely with its mother in a natural setting. The interaction reveals how bonding, comfort, and learning happen ...
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Zoo Responds to Claim That Punch the Monkey Is "Being Bullied"

Don't let the viral videos about Punch drive you bananas. The Japanese zoo housing the beloved macaque monkey—which was abandoned by his mother shortly after his birth in July—addressed public ...
People

Zoo Home to Punch the Monkey Responds to Claims the Abandoned Macaque Is Constantly 'Being Bullied'

The zoo noted that 'a few high-ranking macaques have demonstrated aggression more frequently' and were removed from the habitat on March 8 JIJI PRESS / AFP/Getty The Ichikawa City Zoological and ...
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Punch the monkey: Why do we love him so much and how is he doing now?

If you've fallen in love with a baby monkey named Punch, you're not alone.The Japanese macaque at Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan has drawn a global online audience after videos and photos of Punch toting ...
Scientific American

Punch the monkey and his plushie re-create a famous psychological experiment

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. A baby macaque monkey named Punch has gone viral for his heart-wrenching ...
PBS

Punch the monkey melts hearts after rejection and unlikely friendship

And now a lighter story to end the week. In a zoo outside Tokyo, one monkey has pulled heartstrings around the world after forming an unexpected friendship. Stephanie Sy has the story. It's a story of ...