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Nobody really likes vacuuming, so why expect a vacuum to enjoy its job? Cocorobo, which combines the Japanese words for “heart” and “robot,” can communicate with users in several ways—not least of which is talking back. In this demonstration, when asked how it’s doing, poor little Cocorobo says it just wants a break. And when it’s told to clean up?
Nate: Starting in 2000, a program in Mexico’s Coahuila state called “ Piso Firme ” (Firm Floor) offered up to $150 per home in mixed concrete, delivered directly to families who used it to cover their dirt floors. Scholar Paul Gertler evaluated the impact: Kids in houses that moved from all-dirt to all-concrete floors saw parasitic infestation rates drop 78 percent; the number of children who had diarrhea in any given month dropped by half; anemia fell more than four-fifths; and scores on cognitive tests went up by more than a third.
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At the South by South-West music conference in Austin, Texas, last Thursday, Bruce Springsteen let a brilliant cat out of the bag. He junked the supposed key to modern politics: authenticity. In a 50-minute address, Springsteen said it’s not real.
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12:54 pm ET - Staff Sgt. Robert Bales joined the Army shortly after the 911 terrorist attacks, and he served three tours in Iraq before being sent to Afghanistan. Now he sits in the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, charged with killing 16 Afghan villagers.
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A debate is beginning in France over possible failures of the country's security and intelligence agencies. Prior to his killing spree, Mohamed Merah had been placed on a government list of radical Islamist fundamentalists. And there were even clues leading to his mother after the first murder. Could authorities have acted sooner? By Stefan Simons in Paris more...The Globalist provides a daily account of the key issues before the global community. Combining cutting-edge analysis with first-rate storytelling, The Globalist covers the most important issues, people, companies and organizations shaping the global economy, politics and culture. We focus on what unites and divides countries, societies and cultures, what challenges they face in the global era — and what solutions they offer to the global community.
The Globalist | Default and the Sectarian Temptation: America’s Achilles’ Heel by Ira Straus
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Make sure you enjoy a long laugh today: Laughter is good for you and it’s officially World Laughter Day . If you want to know about the health benefits of laughing, check out Albert Nerenberg’s serious, but fun, documentary Laughology . World Laughter Day is customarily celebrated on the first Sunday of May every year. This year on 1st of May, thousands of people in more than 70 countries will laugh together to promote peace and harmony in the midst of natural disasters, global unrest, violence and terrorism, all of which has disrupted the tranquility of our planet – mother earth. It is also a day committed to spread the message of good health and joy through laughter. Would be great if this caught on in the United States.
Andrew Gilligan Politicians do love their five-point plans, ten-point plans, 12-point plans, don’t they? Most of the points are usually Polyfilla, the political equivalents of ‘Your call is important to us,’ but
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Year: 2001 User Profile: 17-year-old high school graduate waiting for college to start. Went through high school as That Girl Who Is Always Saying "You guys, I have to get home by 12. Seriously though.
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Despite the enormous emotional impact of the unending stream of images from Greece, it would be a mistake to treat the Greek case as an anomaly. It is now obvious that the Greek crisis is nothing other than the most striking manifestation of a European economic and political crisis—and it is as much a crisis of democracy and governance as one of sovereign debt. More… Where does Godard take us in Film Socialisme or, more appropriately, where do we take ourselves? An anarcho-communist distrust of money and the state infuses the film. We are told that “money was invented so as not to look men in the eyes.”
Follow ... the old adage of the road to hell being paved with good intentions is as alive and well as ever, and, in this case, flourishing on YouTube. Most Popular on Watch Nicolas Cage Perform John Cage's 4'33" Can a Criminal Be Identified by His Signature Dance Move? You've Convinced Me: Sunday's Creepy Mad Men Was Deeply Flawed
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