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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 into a tumour but was found to have hair, nails and bones.”

*Make note of the word foetus as it’s apparently spelled this way in Europe.

Read this absolutely disgusting, yet interesting article here.

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 fish feel pain.” (MSNBC.COM)

Read the article here.

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. The motor outputs include vocalizations, facial expressions, and motor capabilities to adjust the gaze direction of the eyes and the orientation of the head. Note that these motor systems serve to steer the visual and auditory sensors to the source of the stimulus and can also be used to display communicative cues.”

It’s not Furby, that’s for sure.

This Friday.

X2.

’nuff said. *woot*