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Weird Human Foosball TableNovember 10th, 2006 While looking for a Foosball table to purchase, I came across this positively weird variation of Foosball - a real human Foosball table. You can have it for rental, 3 days for $2,000 and a $5000 refundable deposit.
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Flexible Artifical Skin to give Robots Human-like Sense of Touch and FeelAugust 15th, 2005 Researchers from University of Tokyo, Japan have developed a flexible artificial skin that could give robots a humanlike sense of touch. The team manufactured a type of "skin" capable of sensing pressure and another capable of sensing temperature.
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Cheap Non-Patented Drug Kills Most CancersFebruary 3rd, 2007 Investigators at the University of Alberta have recently reported that the drug DCA is able to cause tumor regression in a number of human cancers growing in animals. The drug, dichloroacetate (DCA), is being used for years to treat rare metabolic disorders and is known to be relatively safe.
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June 26th, 2006 at 11:09 am
Fortunately, “there [is] no reason for this mutation to raise alarm because the virus has not developed the ability to spread easily among people.” ~ Tim Uyeki, an epidemiologist from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
According to The World Health Organization’s report, “the virus in Sumatra island did not spread beyond the eight blood relatives - no spouses were infected.”
http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2006/06/23/265618-slight-mutation-found-in-bird-flu-virus
June 26th, 2006 at 11:54 am
It is not a cause of concern because of the current mutations potential to spread. It is however a serious cause of concern because it has been proven beyond doubt that it is indeed capable of spreading from human to human. So in essence we may just we a mutation or two away from pandemic variants. Influenza viruses are known to spread by air. The thin aura of safety we had is beginning to crumble away
The virus in Sumatra did not spread because the family was isolated.