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		<title>Indiana Jones And The Literary Science Writing Award</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[PEN American Center has announced that acclaimed naturalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Dr. Edward O. Wilson and actor and conservationist Harrison Ford have joined with PEN to create the PEN/E.O. Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing. The $10,000 award which will be awarded to one non-fiction book each year is designed to &#8220;acknowledge new and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emmetcole.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4302155&#038;post=649&#038;subd=emmetcole&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pedestrian Follows Google Directions, Has Accident, And Sues</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 15:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Looks innocuous enough doesn&#8217;t it? Just another set of directions provided by Google Maps. Not as far as Lauren Rosenberg is concerned. SearchEngineLand reported Friday that Rosenberg is suing Google after she suffered an accident because she following the walking directions Google provided:   Rosenberg used Google Maps on January 19, 2009, via her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emmetcole.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4302155&#038;post=645&#038;subd=emmetcole&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Build Your Own Atomic Force Microscope</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 13:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  I&#8217;ve been fascinated by atomic force microscopy ever since I compiled this slideshow for Wired back in 2008. AFMs are expensive pieces of kit however &#8211;way beyond the means of most private individuals. Another technology that fascinates me is the 3-D printer, which is used for rapid design prototyping in three dimensions. 3-D printers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emmetcole.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4302155&#038;post=640&#038;subd=emmetcole&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wired UK: Humanoid robots to gain advanced social skills</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A pan-European team of robotics researchers began a project this year that could see humanoid bots interact with groups of people in a realistic, anthropomorphic way, for the first time. The &#8220;Humanoids with auditory and visual abilities in populated spaces&#8221; (HUMAVIPS) project has the ambitious goal of making humanoid bots just that bit more human [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emmetcole.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4302155&#038;post=632&#038;subd=emmetcole&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wired UK: AMARSi project could see robots learn from co-workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another recent story for Wired: Robots of the future will be capable of learning more complex behaviours than ever before if a new, pan-European research project succeeds in its goal of developing the world&#8217;s first architecture for advanced robotic motor skills. If successful, the four-year AMARSi (Adaptive Modular Architecture for Rich Motor Skills) project (which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emmetcole.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4302155&#038;post=629&#038;subd=emmetcole&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wired UK: Brain-controlled exoskeletons advance with MindWalker</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A team of European experts is working on a mind-controlled robotic exoskeleton that could enable people currently confined to wheelchairs to walk again and also help astronauts rehabilitate to Earth gravity after prolonged periods in the weightlessness of space. The MindWalker system, which is being developed as part of a three-year, 2.5 million euro project, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emmetcole.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4302155&#038;post=621&#038;subd=emmetcole&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Microbot Construction Workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Wanted: Assembly Worker, Robotics Industry   Requirements: Must be less than one inch tall and willing to work inside the vacuum chamber of a scanning electron microscope; Experience handling and assembling single carbon nanotubes a big plus; 24&#215;7 availability. This is non-&#8217;Microbot Construction Workers Union of North America&#8217; shop.     Apply today and play [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emmetcole.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4302155&#038;post=606&#038;subd=emmetcole&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bee Watch VII: A Cure For CCD?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Spanish scientists have developed a treatment for parasitic Microsporidia infection that could help prevent the continual decline in honey bee population afflicting Europe and the USA. The scientists isolated the Nosema ceranae parasite from professional apiaries suffering from honey bee colony depopulation syndrome, and then went on to treat the infection with complete success. Nosema [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emmetcole.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4302155&#038;post=601&#038;subd=emmetcole&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientist Clarifies Giant Stingray Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A University of Nevada scientist has sought to clarify the &#8216;giant stingray&#8217; story that&#8217;s been doing the rounds recently &#8211;and has revealed that the fish was caught again two weeks after the initial catch, but still has not been weighed. “While the photo is genuine and there’s no denying that this is a huge stingray, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emmetcole.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4302155&#038;post=589&#038;subd=emmetcole&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Green Fingered Bots Grow Tomatoes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group of researchers at MIT&#8217;s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab has developed a swarm robotics system that can tend to plants in a controlled environment &#8211;a development that they hope will one day lead to roboticized agricultural production.  The idea for the project came from work done by Nikolaus Correll, a postdoctoral assistant [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emmetcole.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4302155&#038;post=575&#038;subd=emmetcole&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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