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Robots seen as solution to Japan’s aging, shrinking population
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The wedding conductor spoke, her arms moving with slow jerky movements, as her large, egg-shaped, glowing eyes flashed from purple to blue to green and yellow. Strange?
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High-speed rail is all the rage: here, there and everywhere
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High-speed rail seems to be top of mind among the world’s transportation wonks and policy makers, with action in the U.S., Europe and, most of all, China.
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Shear beams, engineering and the science of the new Bay Bridge
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Putting aside mind-blowing cost overruns, along with delays at a Chinese steel fabrication plant, engineers and scientists are following the equally mind-blowing construction feats in the eastern span of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge.
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“The Last Supper” gets supersized
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Over the years, artists’ depictions of Jesus’ last supper have upped the ante on the portions—by a whopper-sized 69 percent.
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Blame Haiti’s deaths on shoddy construction
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The blame for Haiti’s staggering death toll from the 7.0-magnitude earthquake on Jan. 12—the toll is expected to rise to over 200,000— lies at the feet of that country’s c0nstruction industry, says a Berkeley, Calif. engineer.
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Political website calls Einsteinian physics a ‘liberal conspiracy’
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Conservapedia list 28 “Counterexamples to Relativity” and associates the theory with the philosophy of relativism.
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Beijing puts the ‘work’ in workout
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Compulsory workplace exercise has returned to Beijing after a three-year hiatus.
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There’s wind in their (renewable) sales
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Zotos International, Inc., of Geneva, N.Y., a company begun years ago as a maker of hair dyes, in July announced plans for a $7 million, 3.3 MW on-site wind power project, 30 percent of which is to be funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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If the shoe fits, think about it
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The sight of a celebrity wearing a particular pair of heels causes women an increase in brain activity, a recent study concluded.
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Indian face-lightening app faces criticism
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Controversy seized the blogosphere when Vaseline introduced a Facebook application to promote a line of skin-whitening products for males in India.