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Can a Better Vibrator Inspire an Age of Great American Sex?

Technology -The Atlantic:

Sex toys have transformed into sophisticated and well-designed gadgets that take their inspiration from Apple not Hustler. But one company has a bigger hope: that a better machine could mean better sex for a repressed nation.

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Hippocrates’s 3-Cent Aspirin a Day May Keep Cancer at Bay - Bloomberg

Hippocrates’s 3-Cent Aspirin a Day May Keep Cancer at Bay - Bloomberg:

By Simeon Bennett

Aspirin, the 3-cent painkiller whose origins can be traced to Hippocrates, reduces the chances of developing or dying from cancer earlier than previously thought and also prevents tumors from spreading, studies showed.
People who took a daily low dose of aspirin had a 24 percent lower rate of developing cancer after three years, according to a study in The Lancet medical journal today. Those who took a daily dose of any size were 37 percent less likely to die from the disease after five years than those who didn’t, the study found.

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Need to Create? Get a Constraint | Wired Science | Wired.com

Need to Create? Get a Constraint 
By Jonah Lehrer
One of the many paradoxes of human creativity is that it seems to benefit from constraints. Although we imagine the imagination as requiring total freedom, the reality of the creative process is that it’s often entangled with strict conventions and formal requirements. Pop songs have choruses and refrains; symphonies have four movements; plays have five acts; painters still rely on the tropes of portraiture.

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Isaac Asimov - Three Laws of Robotics

excerpts and edited from: http://www.asimovonline.com/

In science fiction, the Three Laws of Robotics are a set of three rules written by Isaac Asimov, which almost all positronic robots appearing in his fiction must obey. Introduced in his 1942 short story "Runaround", although foreshadowed in a few earlier stories, the Laws state the following:

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Later, Asimov added the Zeroth Law: "A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm." This Law comes into play later in the internal chronology of Asimov's stories (as far as that chronology can be established).