#152321 - 01/18/08 10:47 PM
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"Japanese researchers have spent five years developing a humanoid robot system that can understand and respond to simultaneous speakers. They posit a restaurant scenario in which the robot is a waiter. When three people stand before the robot and simultaneously order pork cutlet meals or French dinners, the robot understands at about 70 percent comprehension, responding by repeating each order and giving the total price. This process takes less than two seconds and, crucially, requires no prior voice training." - http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=AC9BC82B-E7F2-99DF-3AFED884B44A2A8C
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#152493 - 01/19/08 10:49 PM
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A facinating study may explain why people love to argue on this forum.  Even though a mere argument falls short of physical violence, still there is an aggressive quality to it. "New research on mice shows the brain processes aggressive behavior as it does other rewards. Mice sought violence, in fact, picking fights for no apparent reason other than the rewarding feeling. The mouse brain is thought to be analogous to the human brain in this study, which could shed light on our fascination with brutal sports as well as our own penchant for the classic bar brawl. In fact, the researcher say, humans seem to crave violence just like they do sex, food or drugs. " More at : http://www.livescience.com/health/080117-violent-cravings.html
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#152500 - 01/19/08 11:26 PM
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A facinating study may explain why people love to argue on this forum. Even though a mere argument falls short of physical violence, still there is an aggressive quality to it. Yes, this is about as close to physical violence one can do on a forum.  or  But IMHO, there is a great deal of emotional violence that goes on here on this forum.
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#152632 - 01/20/08 08:22 PM
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[Yes, this is about as close to physical violence one can do on a forum.  or  But IMHO, there is a great deal of emotional violence that goes on here on this forum. Yes, all for a daily fix of dopamine! There are better ways to get it, huh? Yeh huh! 
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#152656 - 01/20/08 09:38 PM
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Perhaps it is the only way some people can get an endorphin rush.. [quote]en·dor·phin (ěn-dōr'fĭn) Pronunciation Key n. Any of a group of peptide hormones that bind to opiate receptors and are found mainly in the brain. Endorphins reduce the sensation of pain and affect emotions. American Heritage Dictionary
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#152674 - 01/20/08 11:40 PM
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The scientific cloning community looked on skeptically this week when a private research company announced that it had cloned the first human embryos. Researchers at Stemagen, based in La Jolla, Calif., reported in the journal Stem Cells, that they had produced three cloned blastocysts (early-stage embryos) from 25 donated egg cells by the procedure of somatic cell nuclear transfer, which involves replacing an egg nucleus with that of an adult donor's skin cell. (In this case, one donor was the company's CEO, Samuel Wood.) Although Stemagen said the cloned embryos grew to the stage that yields embryonic stem cell lines—the company's stated goal is to created cloned cell lines for therapeutic purposes—other experts in the field told news outlets that the blastocysts in published photographs didn't look that healthy. (Stemagen; The Washington Post) Would you like to raise a little baby you?
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#152840 - 01/22/08 01:42 AM
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"A volcano beneath Antarctica’s icy surface has been detected for the first time. Under the frozen continent's western-most ice sheet, the volcano erupted about 2,300 years ago yet remains active, according to a study published Sunday in an online issue of the journal Nature Geosciences." - Live Science, 20 January 2008 - from http://www.livescience.com/environment/080120-antarctic-volcano.html
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#153078 - 01/24/08 01:44 AM
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Scientific American Magazine - February, 2008 Disease for DarwinismMore kids, less cancer: Huntington's may confer survival benefitsBy Melinda Wenner " Over the past 35 years, scientists have made several curious discoveries about Huntington’s disease. First, individuals with the neurological disorder are less likely than others to suffer from cancer; second, they tend to have more children than average—about 1.24 children for every one child born to unaffected siblings. Although no one yet knows what is behind these seemingly unconnected findings, a group at Tufts University has proposed that they are linked—and that one of the proteins implicated in Huntington’s may, ironically, provide patients with subtle health benefits." http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=disease--for-darwinism
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#153678 - 01/26/08 06:04 PM
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