A robot dominated future
A glimpse from “The Onion” on mankind’s eventual future, complete control by robots.
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A “meat engine” in our future
Researchers in California have created an artificial muscle that heals itself and generates electricity.
The research, parts of which are already being used in Japan to generate electricity from ocean waves, could be used to make walking robots, develop better prosthetics, or even charge your iPod.
“We’ve made an artificial muscle that, when you apply electricity to it, it expands” more than 200 percent, said Qibing Pei, a scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles and study author. “The motion and energy is a lot like human muscles.”
Florida schools will get evolution in theory form
Florida officials voted adding evolution to required statewide curriculums coursework, but only after some wrangling with religious conservatives. And we know it’s always a good idea to have religious conservatives butt their heads into education (Sarcasm detector explodes).
Bending to pressure from religious conservatives, the State Board of Education on a 4-3 vote included the “theory” language as part of a retooling of the state’s science standards for public school education.
The compromise would require teaching that Darwin’s proposal — that natural selection has driven the evolution of many species from a few common ancestors over billions of years — has yet to be conclusively proven.
“To say there is no debate is ridiculous,” said board member Phoebe Raulerson. “Then why are we here today?”
The panel includes the word “evolution” in state science standards for the first time, but it is relegated to a place among a host of ideas, including Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. By contrast Isaac Newton’s law of gravity is taught as undisputed fact.
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