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[Shevek]

J. Baldwin, tech editor for Whole Earth, reckoned that it took three tries to make a new thing. Once to see the overall construction, once to fix the obvious problems, and once to get it close to what you originally had in mind.
Japanese quality has a lot to do with W. Edwards Deming, who was being ignored in his native US, but got sent to Japan to help with reconstruction. Eventually, a US firm was ordering some precision parts from Japan, and in the contract, stated that they would accept an error rate of 3 per 10,000. They received the order of 100,000 parts, and a separate package containing 30 defective units, with a note explaining that they didn't understand what they were needed for, but hoped that they were suitable.

 

[Nitro]

1975 called.
They want their chairs back.

 

[Forest Cat]

Russian drone submarines or flatulent whale?

UK navy mistook farting whale for phantom Russians trying to track their nuclear subs: report

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

The mostly wonderfully cute new creature:

This is a sea slug. And even neater than cuteness, it contains algae, making it an animal that can photosynthesize!

From the Good News Network:

The tiny sea slug species Costasiella kuroshimae was first discovered only 30 years ago off the coast of a Japanese island.

A mollusk without a shell, it has two dark eyes and two sensing organs called ‘rhinophores’ that emerge from the top of its head and look like sheep’s ears—thus its apt nickname ‘leaf sheep’.

The slugs measure only about 1⁄4 to 3⁄8 inch in length (5-10 mm). They feed on algae which allows them to indirectly perform photosynthesis, one of the few animals that can derive energy much like a plant.

 

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