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Scientists at Vanderbilt University have come up with a prosthetic/robotic arm (I can’t decide which) powered by hydrogen peroxide (essentially steam) instead of batteries. It has a number of advantages: power, speed, smaller size. It gave me this immediate image of Steam Boy, which I thought was a wonderful anime movie. […] I’m sure I’m not the only person to think of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series of science fiction novels when I read this story about predictive simulation. Never heard of psycohistory? Perhaps you will if this patent is the foundation <smirk>. I have always thought of my grandfather as a farmer, and he was. I pictured him in my mind wearing coveralls and wielding a shovel while irrigating his crops, or driving a tractor. After all, that’s what my father did, and my brother did, and I did in the summers, before I escaped farm […] |
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