The geek superstars at the University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP (General Robotics, Automation, Sensing, & Perception) lab have taught their nano quadrotors-and if you know robots, you know that UPenn’s are among the coolest of quadcopters-to play the James Bond theme. My judgment that this is awesome is unaffected by the fact that I went to grad school at UPenn. Just watch until the end for the guitar:

And Rick Santorum thinks college is for snobs!

Paul Waldman is a weekly columnist and senior writer for The American Prospect. He also writes for the Plum Line blog at The Washington Post and The Week and is the author of Being Right Is Not Enough: What Progressives Must Learn From Conservative Success. Follow @paulwaldman1