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  • ICYMI: Farming indoors, realistic robot baby study and more

    by 
    Kerry Davis
    Kerry Davis
    09.25.2015

    #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-644584{display:none;} .cke_show_borders #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-644584, #postcontentcontainer #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-644584{width:570px;display:block;} try{document.getElementById("fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-644584").style.display="none";}catch(e){}Today on In Case You Missed It: University of California San Diego researchers are using the creepiest baby robot you have ever seen (seriously) to compare how human babies get parents to respond with loving facial expressions. Canada is overhauling food production with LED lights, recycled water and conveyor belts in a way that could well be replicated in spaces across the U.S. And in a moment that makes us pause to marvel at technology, Bluetooth connected electrodes were used to help a paraplegic man walk for the first time since being injured.

  • Senator Lindsey Graham on how to properly break your phone

    by 
    Andrew Tarantola
    Andrew Tarantola
    07.22.2015

    During a recent campaign stop in South Carolina, billionaire presidential candidate and hairpiece aficionado Donald Trump decided to share Senator Lindsey Graham's personal cell phone number with the crowd (and all of televised America). This resulted in his phone being inundated by calls from across the country. So what's Senator Graham (R-SC) to do with a number that may as well be scrawled across every truck stop bathroom in the nation under "For a good time call"? Well, first, he got himself a new phone. Then he teamed up with Independent Journal Review, a news and politics forum, to give his trusty old flip-phone the send-off it deserved -- which apparently includes lots of fire, golf clubs, blenders, bokken and long falls.