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In 1970, a Japanese roboticist named Masahiro Mori described what he called the "uncanny valley" - a point on a graph relating human affinity for a machine to its likeness of humans themselves, where human affinity plummets as the likeness becomes nearly indistinguishable from ourselves. As robots become more humanlike>
In western nations, there is a great deal of interest in improving standardized test scores compared to Asian students, but few schools want to do what Asian schools do most; teach to the test and teach by rote.Instead, programs focus on increasing things like 'motivation' have become popular. And so we get a mashup>
One was about 17 Westerners being killed and one was about 2,000 Africans. Guess which got most of the media attention? Kano, Nigeria Stringer/Reuters.By Ethan Zuckerman, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyConsider two tragic events that took place last week.A small cell of Islamic terrorists attacked cartoonists>
On September 7, 1974, pitching for the California Angels, Nolan Ryan, known for his velocity, became the first to have his pitch speed measured during a game. Rockwell International experts clocked the ball velocity at 100.8 miles per hour.That was the fastest pitch ever recorded. Yet last season over 50 pitchers>
Tomorrow is Earth Day. It is also Lenin's birthday. That's not coincidence. The leader of the first Earth Day was not a politician, as the movement has greenwashed Democratic U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson into being, yet credible journalists and an alarming number of commenters will invoke the Earth Day site>
A new study published in this week’s Christmas issue of the BMJ says that humor appears to develop from aggression caused by male hormones.Does it mean men are funnier? Or that more aggressive people are funnier? It means men, especially aggressive men, think they are funnier, according to Professor Sam Shuster.>
