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Welcome, Robot Overlords

Posted on July 26, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/sci… An article from today's Times lays out a very good argument for why we should end all robot production immediately.

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Fergie’s Package

Posted on July 21, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

I always had my suspicions. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment

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Pulling Out Is The Same As A Condom

Posted on July 21, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Link: http://blogs.babble.com/strollerderby… According to the June issue of Contraception magazine, there isn't that much difference between the withdrawal method of birth control and using a condom. I won’t get into the various hair splitting that the researchers offer.

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Laser Technology Creates New Forms Of Metal

Posted on July 20, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

“AFOSR-funded researchers at the University of Rochester are using laser light technology that will help the military create new forms of metal that may guide, attract and repel liquids and cool small electronic devices. Dr. Chunlei Guo and his team of researchers for the project discovered a way to transform a shiny piece of metal into one that is pitch black, not by paint, but by using incredibly intense bursts of laser light

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Fossilized poo reveals ancient ecosystem

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“A new study of 30 million-year-old fossilized mega-dung balls, as big as three inches (seven centimeters) in diameter and produced from the dung of extinct giant South American mammals, reveals that the dung was also a food source for a number of insects that would steal a bite while the dung beetles weren't looking. “Traces [in the fossilized dung] record the behavior of animals actively stealing the food resources set aside by the dung beetles,” said Victoria Sanchez, a graduate student at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Buenos Aires and a co-author on the study. “The shapes and sizes of these fossilized burrows and borings in the dung balls indicate that other beetles, flies and earthworms were the culprits.

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Fighting malaria through pop music

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“My woman went home. My woman went back.

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Swearing Provides Pain Relief, Say Scientists

Posted on July 13, 2009 by | Leave a comment

“Scientific American reports that although cursing is notoriously decried in the public debate, scientists have discovered that swearing may serve an important function in relieving pain. ‘Swearing is such a common response to pain that there has to be an underlying reason why we do it,’ says Richard Stephens of Keele University in England

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