- October 25, 2006 • 11:52 am PDT
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What Does Teaching Creativity Look Like?
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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What the 2.4-Cent Penny Says About America's Budget Problem
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This Valentine's Day, Celebrate All Kinds of Love
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Birth Control Costs More Than You Think—Even for the Lucky Ones
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Give Komen the Pink Slip: Five Ways to Support Women's Health for All
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Is Sweden's Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning?
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What Would a Post-SOPA Internet Look Like?
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A 375-Year-Old French Bank Forgives Debts of Paris' Poorest
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Lessons from Prop. 8: Why We Shouldn't Put Our Civil Rights Up for a Popular Vote
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Intermission: The Most Beautiful Valentine Ever Made
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Labor of Love: 4 Lessons From My Imperfect Love Life
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Wastelands Around the World Unite! Cities' Forgotten Spaces Become Artists' Canvases
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People Are Awesome: Politicians Slash Gas Prices for Needy Drivers
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One of the most uncrackabale codes ever created is actually a sculpture at CIA headquarters. After a hint from the artist, it's about to be solved.
Exploring the sci-fi (and simply sci) roots of the word. Robots are in the air, and I don’t just mean flying robots like the self-assembling,...
From New Scientist, a modular robot that can reassemble itself when broken apart.As one commenter at YouTube points out, "this is the first step...
Heart Robot, a creepy Gollum-esque metal-and-circuit infant, is part of a new field of development in robotic science... the emotibot: robots with...
'Nuff said.Via Neatorama.
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This fall a thousand new fighters started shipping out to Iraq. They were robots, mind you, not people.
It seems like every time you turn around there's a team of engineers at Stanford making another autonomous driving system. Meet Shelley (video...

Companies and institutions are working on remote controlled and autonomous robots to help a variety of people-from soldiers in war to the elderly.

"Our new computer overlords" are no better at small talk than the rest of us.
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So...this happens:An email from our lovely and talented web video director takes us here, at which point it comes to our attention that the...

While processed food is made in factories by giant machines, some human element has always been necessary for butchering and deboning. Until now.
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It looks like a new oil-eating microbe has been helping to clean up the Deepwater Horizon mess, but if it's not around next time there's a...
A man with electrodes on his face becomes a human drum machine when electricity is applied.

Watch. And laugh. And then enjoy the weekend!

Best roommates ever? Two German robots prepare breakfast for a group of researchers.

These robots can tell who you are, what you're holding, and even hold a conversation with you. What's next?
In a rather fascinating essay at Planetizen, Ian Sacs, the director of transportation and parking for Hoboken, New Jersey, talks about his plans...