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Blind juggling robot keeps a ball in the air for hours
from New Scientist - Online news
(2012-12-22 1:17)
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The robot, which has no visual sensors, can juggle a ball flawlessly by analysing its trajectory
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Studio sessions show how Bengalese finch stays in tune
from New Scientist - Online news
(2012-12-22 0:52)
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This songbird doesn't need technological aids to stay in tune– and it's smart enough to not worry when it hears notes that are too far off to be true
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講談社ブルーバックスが近刊の村山斉『宇宙になぜ我々が存在するのか』の読者モニターを30名募集
from 森山和道
(2012-12-21 23:48)
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Tweet このアカウントをフォロー＆RTで応募完了★10万部突破『宇宙は本当にひとつなのか』村山斉最新作『宇宙になぜ我々が存在するのか』1/20日発売を記念し読者モニター30名募集！〆切は12/24 23:59 ★BB最新情報は→ facebook.com/kodanshablue
— 講談社ブルーバックスさん (@bluebacks_pub) 12月 21, 2012
発売前のプルーフ（簡易見本）本が当たるとのこと。
３０名なのでかなりの高確率で当たるんじゃないでしょうか。
読んで感想を送る、その感想を宣伝に使われても構わない人というのが応募条件。
応募締め切りは2012年12月24日（月）。
詳細はこちら。
ツイッターでリツイートするだけで応募完了というのも面白いです。
こういうのは家電やパソコンが商品の懸賞では多いですが、本、しかも科学書というのは珍しい。
そもそも科学書の、しかも新書でプルーフを作るというのも珍しいんじゃないでしょうか。
プルーフというのは、出版社が宣伝用途などで書評屋などに配るために作る本のことです。
私もたまーにもらうのですが、実際に出る本よりも（物理的に）軽かったりすることもあるので、プルーフのほうが好きだったりしま ...
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Giant tooth hints at truly monumental dinosaur
from New Scientist - Online news
(2012-12-21 23:20)
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A lone tooth found in Argentina may have belonged to a dinosaur even larger than those we know of, but what to call it?
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2012 review: Zoologger's 12 beasts of Christmas
from New Scientist - Online news
(2012-12-21 23:12)
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Zoologger is our weekly column highlighting extraordinary animals? and occasionally other organisms ? from around the world. Here are this year's 12 best
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Avian flu virus learns to fly without wings
from New Scientist - Online news
(2012-12-21 22:55)
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A strain of bird flu that hit the Netherlands in 2003 travelled by air, a hitherto suspected by unproven route of transmission
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Feedback: Are wind turbines really fans?
from New Scientist - Online news
(2012-12-21 22:16)
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A tale of "disease-spreading" wind farms, the trouble with quantifying "don't know", the death of parody in the UK, and more (full text available to subscribers)
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The link between devaluing animals and discrimination
from New Scientist - Online news
(2012-12-21 22:14)
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Our feelings about other animals have important consequences for how we treat humans, say prejudice researchers Gordon Hodson and Kimberly Costello (full text available to subscribers)
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Best videos of 2012: First motion MRI of unborn twins
from New Scientist - Online news
(2012-12-21 21:26)
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Watch twins fight for space in the womb, as we reach number 6 in our countdown of the top videos of the year
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2012 Flash Fiction winner: Sleep by Richard Clarke
from New Scientist - Online news
(2012-12-21 21:13)
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Congratulations to Richard Clarke, who won the 2012 New Scientist Flash Fiction competition with a clever work of satire
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