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		<title>Segway Inventor Creates Something Useful</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raiven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First of all Dean Kamen, sorry, but seriously the Segway is retarded.  Moving on, the &#8220;Luke&#8221; arm created by Kamen for DARPA is amazing, and not just because he&#8217;s nerdy enough to name the thing after our favorite fictional amputee and I think Stephen Colbert would agree. The robotic arm has been in development for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gene Therapy To Cure Color Blindness</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A team of researchers at the University of Washington has successfully used therapeutic genes to allow colorblind, adult Squirrel Monkeys to distinguish between red and green again.  Something intriguing indeed to this colorblind man&#8217;s heart. Though they aren&#8217;t testing the process on humans yet, it&#8217;s important to note that the monkeys were adults as it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a Zombie Apocalypse, Mathematically Speaking</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Straight out of the land of &#8220;Someone Got Paid to Do This&#8221; comes the mathematical apocalypse known as When Zombies Attack! A team of mathematicians from the University of Ottawa have taken the time (and money) to calculate how fast the spread of undead will occur should the popular doomsday scenario outbreak begin (finally!).  It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frozen Lightning In Your Veins</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raiven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, the background.  When you electrically charge a block of plastic and then strike the plastic with a nail you get what we see on the left there, termed &#8220;frozen lightning&#8221;.  In truth it&#8217;s actually a series of tunnels carved out of the middle of the plastic when the electrically charged particles race toward the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;E&#8217; is for Evil</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raiven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take a good look at that guy, he is the face of Evil.  Well he&#8217;s at least the computer generated face of E, an artificial intelligence specifically programed to be &#8230; evil. Yes, this does immediately make everyone say, &#8220;why?&#8221; which leads to the obvious answer, &#8220;for science!&#8221;  Selmer Bringsjord of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute [...]]]></description>
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