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Tue. 07/26 - The Best Failed Inventions

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Let’s take a visit to the Museum of Failure. Plus, robot spider zombies. Not a new comic book series, but an actual experiment from mechanical engineers in Texas. And the Earth’s earliest animal predator has been named after David Attenborough. Sponsors: Indeed, Get a free $75 credit PLUS earn up to $500 extra in sponsored job credits with Indeed’s Virtual Interviews at Indeed.com/goodnews Kolide, Got Slack? Got Macs? Get Kolide: Device security that fixes challenging problems by messaging your users on Slack. Try Kolide Today! https://l.kolide.co/3aVdR90 Links: Museum of Failure thread (Trung Phan, Twitter) Museum of Failure Scientists Are Turning Dead Spiders Into 'Necrobots' And We Are So Creeped Out (ScienceAlert) 'Necrobotic' spiders: Manipulating dead spiders' legs with a puff of air to serve as grabbers (Phys.org) Researchers Turn Dead Spiders Into 'Necrobotic' Grippers (CNET) ‘Earliest animal predator’ named after David Attenborough (NBC News) Ancient fossil is earliest known animal predator (BBC) Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:07.7

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0:28.3

22 i'm jackson bird today let's take a visit to the museum of failure plus robot spider zombies not a new comic book series, but an actual experiment

0:41.3

from mechanical engineers in Texas. And the Earth's earliest animal predator has been named

0:48.1

after David Attenbro. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

0:55.4

You know how some people are visual learners and some are auditory learners?

1:00.7

You sometimes I like to joke that I am a mistake learner.

1:04.6

It doesn't matter how much I try to prepare or practice or pay attention.

1:09.1

I usually mess things up the first several times I try them.

1:13.3

After that, I typically get it, but making mistakes is an important part of the process for me.

1:18.9

That is a belief shared by Dr. Samuel West, an American-Islandic clinical psychologist and founder

1:25.6

of The Museum of Failure.

1:28.5

The Museum of Failure is a collection of over 100 failed innovations.

1:34.1

The collection has been exhibited in Sweden, Shanghai, Paris, Taipei, Hollywood,

1:38.8

the Mall of America, and is currently running at South Center Mall in Calgary.

1:43.9

They also do mini pop-ups for smaller events,

1:46.6

and you can view most of the items in a virtual tour online. The Museum of Failure describes itself as,

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