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Robots that Feel Our |
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According to the International Federation of Robots, industrial robots are now a $6 billion a year market, and another $12 billion is spent annually on software and support systems for them.1 |
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Anti-Science and Pse |
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We hear about science every day in the news, but few of us stop to consider what it is ?both at its best and at its worst. |
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People are among the most social creatures on earth. Even in their most primitive state, people naturally form dense webs of social and family ties that sustain and drive their culture and their very survival. This drive for human connections is as old as recorded history. The second chapter of Genesis asserts, “It is not good that the man should be alone.” |
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American Cities Shed |
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The nation’s middle class is shrinking. Between 1970 and 2000, middle-class neighborhoods in the 100 largest cities in the nation dropped from 58 to 41 percent, outstripping the corresponding drop in mid-level incomes from 28 to 22 percent. While 55 percent of low-income families lived in middle-class neighborhoods in 1970, only 37 percent did in 2000. |
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The Truly Super Supe |
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Many watched helplessly this past summer as St. Louis suffered through a torturous blackout and dozens of Californians died during an unprecedented heat wave that sapped electrical power and immobilized the grid in places. |
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