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"‘Fearless Girl’ was originally supposed to be a bronze cow"

NYP:

While planning last year to promote its women’s leadership initiative, State Street Global Advisors got the bright idea to place a life-sized metal cow opposite the Financial District’s “Charging Bull,” as a feminine contrast to the testosterone-fueled male animal image.

But just three months before the cow was to be made, it dawned on State Street that casting the women of business in the symbolic role of a beefy cow might be taken as an insult, according to an e-mail exchange between the company’s rep and City Hall obtained by The Post.

"DragonflEye consists of a living, slightly modified dragonfly that carries a small backpack of electronics"

Spectrum:

The backpack interfaces directly with the dragonfly’s nervous system to control it, and uses tiny solar panels to harvest enough energy to power itself without the need for batteries.

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The unique thing about DragonflEye (relative to other cyborg insects) is that it doesn’t rely on spoofing the insect’s sensors or controlling its muscles, but instead uses optical electrodes to inject steering commands directly into its nervous system, which has been genetically tweaked to accept them. This means that the dragonfly can be controlled to fly where you want, without sacrificing the built-in flight skills that make insects the envy of all other robotic micro air vehicles.

"In the 1990s, however, the Arizona chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans experienced a resurgence, and once again began erecting monuments to the Confederacy"

"Arizona is odd in that they’ve put up monuments in the last 20 years"

"Zoo says that it was a disgruntled shareholder that threw live donkey to the tigers"

Sh:

Because of the ruling, the zoo is unable to move away any of its animals, causing financial difficulties for investors, preventing them from selling their stake and leading them to believe that the zoo and the court are in cahoots.

To make up for this setback, one shareholder decided on Monday to hire a group of men to take away some of the zoo's animals to sell, piling a donkey and a goat into the back of a truck.

When they were prevented from leaving by the zoo's staff, the shareholder decided instead to just throw the unfortunate animals to the tigers.

"Trump's Aides Should Remember Whitewater — And The Collateral Damage"

BF:

You don’t remember Jim Guy Tucker? He was Bill Clinton’s successor as governor of Arkansas, and he was the guy independent counsel Ken Starr did manage to convict, on charges that he’d lied on his application for a loan a decade earlier when he was in the television business. And Donald Trump’s aides would be well-served by googling him — and Webb Hubbell, and Susan and Jim McDougal, and William J. Marks Sr. — about the brutal collateral damage of Starr’s investigation, which originally focused on a real estate deal known as Whitewater but wound up destroying several mid-level Clinton associates before it landed on its improbable destination: Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky.

"Mystery of the E. 64th Street Puddle"

"The building of Manhattan paved over many primeval brooks and streams. But some, like the De Voor Mills Stream under 64th Street, just want to be free. The puddle is a spring that feeds the stream. During heavy rains, it fills nearby basements with water."