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The Beggar Robot has access to areas normally off-limits to beggars, such as shopping malls and community events, where the richer members of society more often frequent. The hypothesis is that this part of society is only able to show some sympathy towards the marginalized if they communicate from a safe distance and via a [...]

“People always used to say they were afraid of me and I wondered, ‘Why? What are you afraid of? Why would people be scared of me?’ Watching the film tonight I realized that I’m scared of that guy.”
– Mike Tyson, on James Toback’s new film about him, also called Tyson.

Finally, here’s a totally helpful website to help you self-diagnose if you’ve got the swine flu. Tell grandma!
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The World Health Organization said on Wednesday the world is at the brink of a pandemic, raising its threat level as the swine flu virus spread and killed the first person outside of Mexico, a toddler in Texas.
“Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in [...]

Apple Inc. is building a significant capability to design its own computer chips, a strategy shift that the company hopes will create exclusive features for its gadgets and shield Apple’s work from rivals.
The Silicon Valley trend-setter has been hiring people from many different segments of the semiconductor industry, including engineers to create multifunction chips that [...]

Some Victorian era WTF warning about the evil dangers of masturbation.
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It’s like normal chicken, only deader.

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An exciting new music you can shake your stick at. Here’s “Fel Del Av Garden.”

A MAN made a desperate four-day journey from the New Guinea highlands to Cairns carrying a six-year-old girl who was suffering horrific abdominal injuries.
Forty-year-old farmer Iambai Pisau was called to his niece’s PNG village school on the border of Indonesia last Thursday after she fell out of a classroom window and landed on a sharp [...]

Performance group La Machine “terrorizes” Yokohama, Japan with its giant robot spider. All those people in the photo? Yep, all dead. DEAD.

Or this is just an art performance, for the 150th anniversary of Yokohama port. Probably that, too.

Violent psychotic killer Robert Clay Allison’s (1840 -1887) epitaph. Motherfucker’s still awesoming people in 2009.

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The Mycocepurus smithii, a newly discovered group of Amazonian ants, are all females and reproduce only by cloning. Their sexual organs have virtually disappeared, not because they’re actually small ants that don’t normally remind you of sexual organs when you think of them, but because they really want to be cool.

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If you’re in the Philippines and looking for a job, OJTCareers is a good resource: search for a job or location as easy as googling (to know how to google, Yahoo! Search it!).
Also: Printable Job Forms.

This lab robot, called Adam, developed by Aberystwyth University and the University of Cambridge in the UK, can generate its own hypotheses and run experiments to test them. For instance, Adam has been studying the genetics of yeast and has made new discoveries by doing the grunt lab work normally conducted by graduate students.
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