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Paradox: Two dogs.

Orthodoxy: Look at all those dogs!

Is graffiti doomed? The writing’s on the wall.

I read today open-minded people have a different perception of reality. Oh no we don't.

Michael Penn put this up on his YouTube channel earlier today, and it is indeed an elegant little problem. Here it is

Michael Penn solves this using congruent triangles, the angle sum of a triangle (180 °) and angles on a straight line (180 °). α is always 60 °, whatever the length of AD and CE. It's not that obvious and I was quite surprised.

However thinking about it later, I saw we can solve the problem using symmetry and the solution is super-nice. Here's how - just add a third line.

The authorities are after a couple of bad guys. Apparently they are Juan, Ted.

This fearsome creature is a robot wolf.

The city of Takikawa in Hokkaido has been having problems with bears venturing into the city after food.

So the city has invested in robot wolves with motion detectors. The robot wolves have bared teeth, flashing red eyes, and a repetoire of 60+ noises that bears find frightening. A bit like a mechanical scarecrow, but for bears.

You can see a robot bear in action here

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/11/japanese-town-deploys-monster-wolf-robots-to-deter-bears

My latest book is about turtles. It's only available in hardback.

Q. What word is not the same as itself?

A. My answer: "Any word, apart from 'itself', but my favourite is 'sausage'."

I didn’t get this one at first. Then it clicked.

Q. What goes "99, 100, Phew!"

A. A centipede counting its legs.

This intersting little animal is a pademelon, a kind of marsupial, related to kanaroos and wallabies.

I had never heard of pademelons, but the name came up in a quiz tonight. There are seven species but the Wikpepdia article is a bit sparse on detail.

Here's a video from of young pademelons playing.