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111Air moving through couch-like foam can carry logic and sensing into a soft machine.
112A microscopic stamp teaches living muscle cells to pull in rings and rays instead of one line.
113An octopus arm hides a repeating neural map beneath its almost limitless movement.
114In Queensland, a rabbit may be prohibited in a living room yet permitted in a licensed magic act.
115Two railway cars climb and descend a Devon cliff by trading water weight, with gravity doing the actual pulling.
116A wild grey seal brought two front flippers together and made one sharp percussive sound underwater.
117A placozoan is a living sheet with no neurons, yet thousands of cilia can fold that sheet into changing forms.
118A robot hand can have sensitive fingertips and still fail to notice an object pressing into its palm.
119For a revolutionary interval, noon moved to five and the day became a decimal fraction.
120A robot can inspect a closed object the way a person checks an attic box: lift it, give it a careful shake, and feel what the motion reveals.
The Weird Please editorial desk collects true stories about curious inventions, peculiar history, strange science, and the gloriously unexpected.
