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    • 15 Ratings
    • 6324 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    Kindle's Robot Voice

    FEBRUARY 24, 2010 2:47AM

    By The Biblio Files


    Topics: books, technology, kindle, wrath of khan, robots, text-to-speech

    • 26 Ratings
    • 5365 Views
    • 43 Comments
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    Robots to Replace Women

    MARCH 16, 2009 11:07AM

    By fingerlakeswanderer


    Topics: lorraine berry, sex, robots, japan, fashion, culture, women, feminism

    • 12 Ratings
    • 4801 Views
    • 25 Comments
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    Rethinking Mega-Corporations

    MARCH 15, 2009 8:19PM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: inefficiency, market efficiency, singularity, ai, robots, free market, market, robustness, diversity, many minds, many minds hypothesis, competition, maximum size corporation, maximum size company, megacorporations, politics, economics, business

    • 0 Ratings
    • 4004 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    The NYT, For When The Metal Ones Decide To Come For You

    JULY 25, 2009 11:52PM

    By Annie Laurie


    Topics: humor, science, new york times, television, movies, scifi, terminator, battlestar galactica, robots

    • Editor's Pick
    • 20 Ratings
    • 3190 Views
    • 36 Comments
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    Would You Want a Robot Doctor?

    MARCH 3, 2010 8:22AM

    By Linda Shiue


    Topics: health, medicine, science, robots, primary care

    • Editor's Pick
    • 7 Ratings
    • 3112 Views
    • 19 Comments
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    Robots Are Coming to Take Your Job

    NOVEMBER 4, 2011 8:19AM

    By Frank Michels


    Topics: robots, computers, jobs, computers, siri, technology, race against the machine, middle class

    • Editor's Pick
    • 24 Ratings
    • 2849 Views
    • 39 Comments
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    The Automat on the rue de Wattignies

    MAY 20, 2011 12:24PM

    By Alysa Salzberg


    Topics: automats, paris, curiosities, robots, vending machines, nostalgia yet not, modern paris, bercy, 12th arrondissement, gardens, frank ghery, bercy history, jardin de bercy, architecture, from the mixed up files of mrs. basil e. frankweiler

    • 1 Ratings
    • 2604 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Killer Corpse Eating Robots: Not Just For Movies Anymore

    JULY 18, 2009 10:53AM

    By aaroncynic


    Topics: future weapons, darpa, war, robots, eatr, pentagon, news, science, technology

    • 34 Ratings
    • 2313 Views
    • 49 Comments
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    Outsourcing Humanity

    OCTOBER 9, 2010 12:51PM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: politics, economics, outsourcing, offshoring, eliza, nora, virtual agent, humanity, purpose, plan, wal-mart effect, price point, lower prices, competition, free market, robots, people, human beings, humans, employment, unemployment, jobs, recovery, stock market, investment, efficiency, lowest price, best price, customer service, nationalism, recession, depression, philosophy

    • 37 Ratings
    • 1881 Views
    • 54 Comments
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    The Nature of Creativity

    DECEMBER 20, 2009 9:54AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: water lilies, chalk, mary poppins, complementary, complement, pepsi-cola, pepsi, coca-cola, coke, giverny, monet, claude monet, m.c. escher, escher, writing, writer, masterpiece, symphony, orchestra, song, singing, canvas, painter, painting, rock-paper-scissors, rock paper scissors, robots, robot, i robot, mechanism, inspiration, art, creativity, purpose, reason, philosophy of religion, philosophy

    • 2 Ratings
    • 1807 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Loving My Robot Rhythm Method

    MAY 4, 2009 7:35PM

    By bstrangely


    Topics: rhythm method, robots, kids, babies, sex, birth control, parents, parenthood, sex ed, insurance

    • 6 Ratings
    • 1614 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    Music Monday: Robots Need Love Too

    APRIL 18, 2010 9:09PM

    By McGarrett50


    Topics: music, music monday, dan mangan, robots

    • 18 Ratings
    • 1571 Views
    • 35 Comments
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    My 25: with good-natured references to other OSers

    DECEMBER 31, 2008 12:12PM

    By O'Kathryn


    Topics: my 25, sister, guns, knives, love, robots, animals, plants, loathing, disasters, whimsy, lizards, fur coats, city hall, playing school, navigation, iphone, gps, religion and rationality, survival skills, homage to other osrs, obama

    • 3 Ratings
    • 1278 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    #104 "Transformers"... robots in disguise

    JANUARY 22, 2010 10:22AM

    By N. Jordan


    Topics: image, cars, transformers, robots, competition, movies, open call, television

    • 5 Ratings
    • 1147 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    When Robots Make American Work Ethic Obsolete

    JUNE 3, 2012 2:14PM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: politics, economics, capitalism, supply-side capitalism, foxwoods casino, automation, robots, work ethic, moral values, religion, slot machines, downsizing, unemployment, free market, keynesian economics, great depression, great recession, stimulus spending, wall street journal, austerity, paul krugman, housing bubble, dot.com bubble, weapons of mass destruction, paradox of development, safety net, farming, creative destruction, entrepreneurialism, leisure class, monied interests, landed elite, john adams, labor market, hysteresis, economic recovery, business cycle, structural economic change

    • 3 Ratings
    • 1142 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    ‘Alien’ meets ‘Tree of Life’ in Ridley Scott’s ‘Prometheus’

    JUNE 9, 2012 5:26PM

    By Robert Crook


    Topics: summer movies, steven spielberg, stanley kubrick, science fiction, sci-fi movies, sci fi, robots, ridley scott, movies, movie review, movie, michelangelo, michael fassbender, james cameron, hal, guy pearce, film review, film, entertainment, ellen ripley, david, androids, 2001

    • 3 Ratings
    • 1102 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    A VERY Personal Robot

    JULY 20, 2009 7:22AM

    By Robert Brenner


    Topics: sex, sexiest man living 2009, open call, comedy, technology, science, robots, movies, terminator, transformers, star wars, matrix, lost in space, wall-e

    • 0 Ratings
    • 1012 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Patel Bros Next Generation- Cigar Review

    FEBRUARY 11, 2011 12:30PM

    By Katmancross


    Topics: open call, cigars, cigar review, patel, next generation, clones, robots, patel brothers

    • 26 Ratings
    • 1006 Views
    • 32 Comments
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    Robotics Engineer Confesses: "I Built Mitt"

    SEPTEMBER 13, 2012 11:40AM

    By john blumenthal


    Topics: southern states, satire, robots, republican, political satire, political humor, mitt romney, mit, generic candidate, geeks, dog, democrat

    • 2 Ratings
    • 947 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Boy Scouts Downplay Wilderness Survival Skills

    APRIL 14, 2011 7:43AM

    By Frank Michels


    Topics: merit badges, robots, stem, technology, survival, boy scouts

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