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LOTD for August 23
Robots with artificial animal-inspired brains quickly evolved to deceive and cheat each other. Do we really want to encourage robots to cheat and deceive in order to look out for their...
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LOTD for August 24 (part 1)
Small company in San Diego that developed an imaging system to find submerged whales from an orbiting Navy UAV (so that no whales are around when the Navy ships and subs do sonar training) may be able...
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LOTD for August 24 (Part 2)
The military’s increasing reliance on UAVs ($3.5 billion in FY2010) have altered the landscape for the defense industry: http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/single.php?id=8594 Qinetiq got an...
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LOTD for August 25
Report predicts that *half* of the people in the US could get the swine flu this fall and winter, hospitalizing up to 1.8 million people and causing up to 90,000 deaths:...
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LOTD for August 26
Researchers found that when high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS, commonly used in soft drinks and dozens of human foods) is exposed to warm temperatures it can form a deadly toxic substance. HFCS is also...
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LOTD for August 27
The US plans to go to the moon as a stepping stone to sending people to Mars, but Russia plans to send people to Mars first. They don’t have the money to get to Mars, but they are hoping for an...
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LOTD for August 28
Research has found that handwriting analysis may be more effective than lie detector tests–apparently people write differently when they are telling the truth than when they are lying:...
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LOTD for August 29
UK scientists developed the first ever biological robot using *mold*. The plasmodium robot (plasmabot) have the number crunching power of super computers, has already demonstrated it can trasport...
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LOTD for August 30
Researchers concluded that most of Earth’s clouds get their start in deep space–they say that cosmic rays collide with water molecules in our atmosphere to form clouds:...
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Link Collection has been moved!
It has been a hassle having some blogs on wordpress and others on blogspot, so I’m moving the Link Collection blog to blogspot. The Link Collection is now being archived at:...
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