{ 2007 04 20 }

Robot that slices and dices brains

There’s a nifty new technology that could make microscopic surgeries much closer to the level of miraculousness that we see on science fiction shows. It’s a robot that shows the operator the subject through Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).

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And here is a fancy pantsy robot that can outdraw you on a childhood toy. I had just been thinking if a robot could be built to turn the knobs on an Etch A Sketch, and then on Digg a commenter led me to the answer.

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This is serious: bees may be getting killed in a big way by cell phone and other EM radiation. Bees are essential for our crops, and so without bees, we’ll have job losses or even starvation. Hopefully a solution can be found very quickly, and conclusive evidence rules out our communication devices.
Even if it isn’t cell phones, we still have massive bee die-offs.

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And this is anything but serious. Check out the video on Revver if you don’t have Quicktime to play Tim and Ernie. They give an excellent review of Alberta, and have some planetary jokes thrown in too. They talk about Alberta as if it’s a real country and not something Stephen Harper dreamed up to scare Ottawa with!

Posted by Saskboy on Friday, April 20th, 2007, at 12:10 pm, and filed under Saskatchewan, computer, humour, news, science.

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