- VIDEO: Carnivorous Robots Trap, Eat Bugs for Fuel – CPUs, Boards & Components by ExtremeTech
- Design student James Auger has built a robotic digital clock that draws its energy from common house flies that it traps and "consumes." …
To summarize: science has produced a self-sustaining robot that is designed to trap, kill, and consume living creatures for energy. As far as flies are concerned, the robot apocalypse has already begun. …
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- California expected to seek high-speed rail funds rejected by Florida | Stateline.org RSS – Tim Sheehan
- Money from Florida could put Merced and Bakersfield on track to be included in construction of California's first section of high-speed rail.
- The Right’s Use of Records Requests to Chill Dissent and Attack Academics | People For the American Way blogs – Paul
- Any thought that [the Cronon affair] might be an isolated response was quickly shattered when similar requests were made for Wisconsin-related e-mails at three Michigan universities. Rather than being from the Wisconsin GOP, these were from a right-wing organization called the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. They filed requests for e-mails of the faculty of the University of Michigan Labor Studies Center, the Douglas A. Fraser Center for Workplace Issues at Wayne State University, and the Labor Education Program of Michigan State University. The requests cover not only e-mails relating to the Wisconsin clash over the labor rights, but, according to press reports, also any e-mails mentioning Rachel Maddow.
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- Oh c’mon, are we really talking about starving babies in 2011? | Pandagon – Amanda Marcotte
- …Republicans are willing to force women to have children against their will, and…deprive women of the sort of support they need to raise those children, including WIC. But…intersectionality on the left isn’t optional [because] the right is intersectional always.
…The view is that government assistance was created…to allow women to have children but escape their natural role as dependent on men. This argument is often expanded to attack men living in poverty, to impugn their manhood by saying they refuse to grow up and provide for their families. That we have 10% unemployment has not budged the Republican argument that all impoverishment is due to laziness and rebellion against god-given gender roles….
We should be discussing instead how to make WIC a better program that doesn’t focus so much on interrogating and humiliating women who apply, which discourages applications and results in more kids getting inadequate nutrition. …
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