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Absolutely epic maker tale from former Atari dev Scott Williamson, who writes: So, you may be wondering why anyone would bother to make a version of a 30 year old vector arcade game on an arcane 33 year old platform? I was inspired by one of the greatest and most influential game programmers of all time to make something that he said was impossible. I don’t consider this a game development project, rather an alternative history art piece, a demonstration that it could indeed be done. Back story: Porting Star Castle to the 2600 was the first assignment of now-legendary Atari game pioneer Howard Scott Warshaw, who eventually decided that “a decent version couldn’t be done” on the console hardware, and reorganized the core gameplay elements of Star Castle into Yar’s Revenge , which went on to become Atari’s best-selling original title for the 2600. Now story: Williamson, who worked for Atari starting in ’87, became fascinated with the Star Castle challenge.
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By gluing radio chips to the backs of 800 honeybees, researchers proved that Neonicotinoid pesticides interfere with their behavior. Greg Laden reports that bees exposed to the common aphid-killer "forage abnormally, have 'olfactory memory' problems, are easily disoriented and become poor learners." Fewer of them ever return to the colony.
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Teddy bears lifted to 30,085 metres above sea level on a helium balloon in a materials experiment by CU Spaceflight and SPARKS science club. Each of the bears wore a different space suit designed by 11-13 year olds from SPARKS. CU Spaceflight is a student-run Cambridge University society founded with the aim of achieving cheap access to space .
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Image: Flickr/Jasonwoodhead23 cc license Believe it or not, we survived and are recovering from last week’s pop-top camping trip to Santa Fe. I miss the huevos rancheros , but not the camper’s cycling vortex heater. For those of you who missed this week’s puzzle it was this: The pop-top has a propane heater, set on a thermostat. Only the heater blows like a Boeing 747 test wind tunnel.
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