Specs of a Roberts Electric

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Whenever I photograph a very rare car, I always try to take my own measurements for a later spec page, knowing they might otherwise be impossible to find. So naturally, when I shot a (the) 1896/97 Roberts Electric for our upcoming alt-power issue of Hemmings Classic Car, me and mechanic Munci

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Chinese Noodle-Slicing Robot

post from Singularity Hub on 27 August 2012 11:44:51 AM. © Singularity Hub

Normally when we talk about China?s plans to phase out human workers with automation we?re referring to factory assembly line [...]

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Aug. 27, 1989: Brits Launch Direct-to-Home TV
Satellite

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 27 August 2012 10:13:57 AM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

From Wired Top Stories: A communications satellite, Marco Polo I, is strapped to the back of a rocket that takes off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and launched into a geosynchronous orbit. Its mission: to change how couch potatoes across Britain receive television signals and usher in a

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Atheist films

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Sometimes I feel that my local newspaper The Plain Dealer's motto must be ?All Catholic News All the Time." It has devoted an endless number of news stories to the decision by the local bishop to shut down a number of churches and consolidate those parishes

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US Astronaut Neil Armstrong Dies

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 27 August 2012 09:48:05 AM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

From BBC News - Science & Environment: US astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the Moon, has died at the age of 82 from complications following heart surgery. Read the whole article

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Making sense out of the biological matrix of
bipolar disorder

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The more that we understand the brain, the more complex it becomes. The same can be said about the genetics and neurobiology of psychiatric disorders.

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Study reveals human drive for fairness

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People will reject an offer of water, even when they are severely thirsty, if they think the offer is unfair, according to a new study by researchers at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL.

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Do tablet computers suppress sleep

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A new study from the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute shows that a two-hour exposure to electronic devices with self-luminous ?backlit? displays causes melatonin suppression, which might lead to delayed bedtimes, especially in teens

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Merging tissue and electronics

Story Source New tissue scaffold could be used for drug development and implantable therapeutic devices.

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Company creates hyper-realistic, customizable
human video avatars

CEO and founder, Behrooz Rezvani, Ph.D, has launched Seyyer Inc., a cloud-based video software artificial intelligence company that offers users the first customized, cognitive video realization (CVR) platform built to easily create massive amounts of individualized, authentic video content, inst

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