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| Short of staff, Norway eyes robot care for elderly OSLO (Reuters) - Household robots may help human carers look after the growing number of elderly Norwegians in years to come, enabling them to live longer and more comfortably in their own homes, a project leader told Reuters on Thursday. feeds.reuters.com |
Brazil termite hunters find 200-year-old mummy SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Exterminators looking for termites in a monastery in Brazil's biggest city of Sao Paulo found a mummy and a skeleton believed to be at least 200 years old, the head of the monastery said on Tuesday. feeds.reuters.com |
Spacewalkers add hands to space station robot Spacewalking astronauts added hands to a robot outside the international space station early Friday as experts on the ground prepared to beam up a software patch they hoped would fix a problem getting power to the giant machine. rssfeeds.usatoday.com |
Ancient Gold Necklace Discovered in Peru WASHINGTON (AP) -- The earliest known gold jewelry made in the Americas has been discovered in southern Peru. The gold necklace, made nearly 4,000 years ago, was found in a burial site near Lake Titicaca, researchers report in Tuesday's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.... hosted.ap.org |
TierneyLab: Mr. Smith’s Gambling Problem In what I hope is a final attempt to clear up the Mr. Smith probability problem, I've got another explanation and a new problem involving a coin, a die and $100. First, the explanation, from Craig Fox, the U.C.L.A. professor who got this argument started: There seems to be some debate among your readers concerning the [...]. tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com |