Real Insects ^[NEW]

Finally, the experimenters examined real insects. To see if leg adhesion might also play a role in the walking coordination of real flies, they put polymer drops on the flies’ legs to cover their claws and adhesive pads — as if the flies were wearing boots — and watched what happened. The flies quickly began to use bipod-like leg coordination similar to the one discovered in the simulation.

Reserve Requirements ^[NEW]

Reserve requirements are the proportions of the deposits that banks must keep on hand and are not allowed to lend out. For example, if the reserve requirement is 10% and you deposit $100 in a bank, the bank can lend $90 of that $100 to someone else. But it is not allowed to lend the remaining $10.

Past, Present and Future ^[NEW]

Modern science says: ‘The Sun is the past, the Earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass, we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.