July 20th 2025
Yes yes people, welcome back. I hope you all have had an awesome week and if not don’t stress, next week will surprise you! Now, there’s quite some real wild stuff this week. Been a bit hectic. Soo let us get right into it.
01. Robodog Takes Over Dutch Pastures
Picture a Dutch dairy farm swapping its trusty border collie for a four-legged robot that herds over three hundred sheep using GPS and lidar and a smartphone app. It never gets tired or sidetracked, just follow the on-screen map, program your whistle commands, and watch it nudge every ewe into the milking barn. Farmers say it’s a total game-changer for both efficiency and animal welfare, and best of all, you never have to worry about muddy paw prints in the kitchen. Some people are also truly against it. I dunno it is quite cool but to replace a humans best friend with a robot, im n’m not quite sure.
02. Selective Laser Magic, NASA’s 3D-Printed Injector Nails Every Hot-Fire Test
Imagine building a rocket injector layer by layer. Yeah, no machining of dozens of tiny bits, just metal powder and a laser. That’s exactly what happened at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility this winter. From November 2023 through January 2024, the propulsion team ran 21 short “hot-fire” tests of the Orion Main Engine’s injector, all printed in one piece using selective laser machining. Each firing proved the part could deliver liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen into the combustion chamber cleanly, maintain stable burns, and even recover if engineers deliberately perturbed the flame.
Traditional injector fabrication can involve 160 individual parts and months of work. This blade-sharp, super-dense single-piece injector rolled off the printer in weeks, slashed assembly time and cost, and crucially held up under real rocket conditions. It’s a giant leap toward fully 3D-printed engines for Artemis landers and deep-space missions, where every gram (and every dollar) counts.
wild.
03. Humanity Holds the Line
This is both amazing and scary at the same time. At the AtCoder World Tour Finals Heuristic Contest in Tokyo, a 41-year-old Polish programmer, nicknamed Psyho, out-coded an OpenAI model, guiding virtual robots across a 30×30 grid with a solution so slick that he edged the AI by 9.5 percent in the final score. He accomplished it all in a ten-hour marathon using “plain” Visual Studio Code, with no AI assistance, relying only on basic autocomplete. Psyho admits exhaustion set in, he nearly took a break midway, but knowing the AI was breathing down his neck, pushed him to squeeze out every last drop of creativity and stamina.
OpenAI’s own CEO, Sam Altman, even chimed in on X, saying “good job psycho” and hinted that this human vs. AI face-off might be a fleeting thing. In February, he warned that by the end of 2025, AI tools could begin to dominate coding contests altogether. So savor this win now, it might just be the last time a human coder walks away on top.
Quizzz
Q1: What can one catch that is not thrown?
A1: A cold
Q2: What never asks a question but gets answered all the time?
A2: Your cellphone
Q3: What is always coming but never arrives?
A3: Tomorrow
Q4: What gets wetter the more it dries?
A4: A towel
04. Living Streetlamps? Tokyo’s Labs Grow Mushrooms That Glow for Days
Tokyo’s mycology labs have turned the city into a real-life fairy tale by culturing bioluminescent mushrooms that burn bright in neon green and yellow for up to a week. Japanese scientists first got the ball rolling when Osamu Shimomura and an international team cracked the fungal luciferase pathway in 2018. Building on that breakthrough, researchers at institutions like Chubu University and the National Museum of Nature and Science are now fine-tuning growth media, adjusting nutrients, humidity and substrate to dial in glow intensity and duration.
Not longuntil you might be able to “plant” your own eco-friendly streetlamps or nightlights that need nothing but water to light up your home. This is exciting.
05. Robot Royalty Painter Steals the Spotlight
A humanoid robot named Ai Da swishes her mechanical arm across an oil canvas, then steps back to reveal the British Monarchs, King Charles in all his regal glory. She peered through built-in cameras, analyzed countless photos of the monarch, and let advanced AI decide each brushstroke in real time
It’s not just a quirky stunt Ai Da actually painted Queen Elizabeth II back in 2022 for the UN’s AI for Good Summit in Geneva. Now she’s back with “Algorithm King,” proving robots can capture royal cheekbones with zero tea-spilling required. Think about it next time you’re hanging art at home, you might be commissioning your toaster to paint you instead lol.
06. Your Next Battery Could Be Breakfast
Researchers at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia have developed a completely edible battery made from food-grade ingredients, featuring a riboflavin (vitamin B2) anode, a quercetin (plant pigment) cathode, activated carbon for conductivity, all sealed in beeswax with a nori-algae separator. This little cell cranks out about 1 V at tens of microamps for 10–12 minutes. Just enough juice to run a tiny ingestible sensor that tracks pH and temperature through your GI tract, and then it harmlessly dissolves in your stomach within 20 minutes.
We're going to be swallowing a diagnostic pill that powers itself, sends back live gut-health data, and then vanishes without a trace. No surgery, no cleanup. It’s a game-changer for smart medical capsules and could even lead to edible environmental tags in food packaging.
Fire Facts
1. Humans can't walk in a straight line without looking at something.
2. Ketchup was used as medicine.
3. Rats will laugh out loud if you tickle them.
4. Boeing used potatoes to test their in-flight Wi-Fi.
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