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Martial arts robots hit Asian tech fair
Humanoid robots capable of performing somersaults and complex martial arts moves were demonstrated at Asia's largest electronics and computing fair in Tokyo on Saturday.
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Monkey controls robotic arm using brain signals sent over Internet
Do the math... we're doomed! |
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| From OzDutch comes news of, well, it speaks for itself:
The conservator of the Rotterdam Natuurmuseum has won an Ig Nobel Prize for the world's most useless research, awarded for his study into the alleged first case of homosexuality and necrophilia among wild ducks.
Kees Moeliker's article described a rare occurrence in which a wild duck was killed when it flew against the glass façade of the museum in 1995. The duck had been pursued by another male duck, which then raped the dead duck almost continuously for 75 minutes.
The conservator resolved to write about the event based on three remarkable topics: the homosexuality, the necrophilia and the remarkably extended sexual contact, a Radio Netherlands report said on Wednesday. His paper was published in 2001.
Moeliker — who claims to have written the first reported case of homosexual necrophilia in mallards — was pleased to have won the prize. He was personally attending the awards ceremony in the US on Thursday..
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| Today's Palo Alto Daily News' headline reads (I kid you not):
Recall's recall recalled
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| First it was diamond making technology. Now the next best kept former-secret coming out of Soviet Russia,
the Anti-Hangover Drug, a pill that allows you to get drunk, but delays the hangover!
What's next, bona-fide spoon bending? |
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| Seems like some researchers are using mobs of panicked mice to generate models of how people react in a mass panic situation:
Stampeding mice behave like fleeing humans
Best quote:
The number of mice in the enclosed wet pool was maintained at 30 - with a new mouse added each time one escaped - to keep the panic level constant.
That one's a keeper: keep the panic level constant.
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