ROBOTS THAT SURPRISE YOU

THE ECONOMIST (2007) 11/3/

18/ ROBOTS ARE EVERYWHERE. There is a new mosquito like robot that flies near your window and spies on you. Robots build cars, un- manned cars and planes are beginning to drive down the highway of life. There are pet like creatures and numerous other robots that are truly too many to mention. That includes sex rots at realdoll.com/

Electric and robot cars can be seen on 94 and 95.

85/ Placebos given to athletes, believing that they are getting performance enhancing drugs improve their abilities.

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT (2007) 11/12

ZUCKERMAN 72/ ALL TOGETHER NOW! Why is the USA sinking into what appears to be a severe recession? We have a 9 trillion dollar debt that we owe to other countries and only about 6 central banks overseas keep holding our money./ Real Estate keeps falling down and there are more ARMs that come due next year./ Financial institutions don’t know what they are worth or how much another institution is worth because the

security papers are filled with good and bad IOU’s. / We continue to spend and cut taxes. Hedge funds are used as no longer a back up but a way to increase getting money faster. These hedge funds are built on econometric models with flaws and they can quickly date themselves. Zuckerman suggests some remedies. He ends: HOLD ON TO YOUR WALLETS, FOLKS, and THIS IS GOING TO BE A BUMPY RIDE!

NEWSWEEK (2007) 11/12

NIEMANTSVERDRIET 78/  new flashlights are solar powered and can give third world people even more empowerment in organizing their villages and their lives. It has the same impact as the cell phone.

MEECHAM 30-37/ If Mike Bloomberg runs for president it will cost him 1 billion dollars. He is very capable. If he runs, the Democrat wins.

TIME (2007) 11/12

GROSSMAN (60) the best innovation of this year is the iPhone.

PONIEWOZIK (142) Watch ANIMAL PLANTET. You will enjoy the trials and tribulations of Meerkats. They are little animals that look like furry robots that standup and look around and have a lot of human characteristics.

THE WEEK (2007) 11/9

24/ How do people judge candidates? In a very short moment, think BLINK.

GOOD VIBES encourage people to lose weight. When put on vibrating machines folks lose weight. / How do blind people “see?” Every part of the brain increases in size based on the other senses/ Sleeping pills give you about 15 minutes extra sleep. / Those that don’t get enough sleep over a period of time ACT JUST LIKE MENTALLY ILL PEOPLE. Some  mentally ill people face insomnia every night, so fatigue and mental illness get intertwined.

NEWSWEEK (2007) 11/5

ALI (53) SINGLE MOTHERS, who have are professional and don’t find a husband by the late 30’s, are likely to get special sperm from a smart male without emotional problems and the outcome is that the child does not have the same problems as

poor single mothers.