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From the “Hey-This-Is-Pretty-Gross” Depart­ment: “Doc­tors at Chimkent Children’s Hos­pi­tal in Kaza­khstan orig­i­nally believed Mourat Zhanaidarov was suf­fer­ing from a cyst. But dur­ing surgery, they dis­cov­ered he was in fact car­ry­ing the dead foe­tus of his twin brother. The foe­tus* had developed (…)

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Some fish­er­men out there will catch a fish and non­cha­lantly toss it back into the stream mut­ter­ing to one­self, “Eh, it doesn’t feel any­thing.” “Anglers take note ? British sci­en­tists say that after years of debate, they now have proof that (…)

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Accord­ing to the MIT Kismet project site, “Kismet is an expres­sive robotic crea­ture with per­cep­tual and motor modal­i­ties tai­lored to nat­ural human com­mu­ni­ca­tion chan­nels. To facil­i­tate a nat­ural infant-caretaker inter­ac­tion, the robot is equipped with visual, audi­tory, and pro­pri­o­cep­tive sen­sory inputs. (…)

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This Fri­day. X2. ’nuff said. *woot*