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Is this the cutest baby pigmy hippo you’ve ever seen or what?

Check out all the newbors at ZooBorns.

We used to own a bunch of chickens when I was a kid, and I always thought it was great how their heads stayed in the same place when you move the bodies around.  Seems as though I wasn’t the only person in the world to be entertained by that.

Another neat amoeba story.  An amoeba species that sits around being all single-celled and all, eating and having fun.  But when food gets scarce, they all join together and walk somewhere else.

Read the full story here. 

Watch this video of 10,000 amoebas joining into a sort-of-multicellular-thingy and going for a walk.

Nifty physics contraption thingy:

http://www.gamereclaim.com/2008/10/128/

Unfortunately, you can solve all levels pretty quickly.  Fantastic contraptions can keep you busy for a long time.

Holly sent a really nifty site, http://fantasticcontraption.com/ that lets you build cool rolling machines.

• Here’s one ugly solution I came up with: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2084594
• And another http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2086118
• http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2086559
• Wall Walker
• Mission to Mars solution
• Totally awesome: This one we didn’t do. It was already there.
  
• U-Turn solution
• The Bumper
• The Slingshot
• Saved Swinger Sadie, henry and I worked this one out.
• Back and forth and wedge is a cool one I did.
• Dog o 1 tail is a cool one
• The Conveyor (caleb & henry)
• Transplant This