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...robotic arm in action on a computer screen. This kind of tactile and visual feedback, Nicolelis hopes, will teach the monkeys to associate the arm's movements with their thoughts. Once they make that link, they might not take the trouble to stretch out their arms anymore. Why bother when a mere thought will move the robot...
...bother? Well, if you had a suit made of rubidium canisters, you'd be invisible (except for the suit of rubidium canisters, of course). And solar power - storage being the missing link when it comes to that sort of thing - comes to mind. But most folks, when they think of taming light, dream of super-fast, super-small computers, and that seems to be where this all headed. A so-called quantum computer - one that used light instead of electricity - could use switching mechanisms moved by a single photon. Quantum communications could never be eavesdropped upon. Without the ability...
...there's always the threat of overkill. "If I were a casting agent, I'd want a piece of Farrell," says Adam Smith, senior features writer for the British movie magazine Empire. "But he should pick his roles very carefully. Filmgoers are notoriously fickle." Which, for now, doesn't bother the young actor. "Acting is not where my happiness in life comes from," he says. "I won't be shedding any crocodile tears if it's taken away. I've had a good trip so far." Spoken like a true celebrity...
...here's a tricky question: If the proportion of Britons who bother to vote were to fall to the levels routinely seen in the U.S. - around 50% - would that make Britain a less democratic society than Italy? Here's another: If so, would that hurt Britain's economic prospects? The answer (a cop-out but true): it all depends. The interaction among elections, democracy and economic prosperity is complex. Elections can be wonderful manifestations of the human spirit: we all remember the photographs from 1994 of endless lines of black South Africans, standing patiently, ready to vote in the country...
...talking heads can't explain the polls' giving Bush a 56% approval rating, down just 3% from before the recount. No wonder Bush, who has become the Garbo of politics, doesn't bother talking to Big Media. The rumor mongering left him irritated enough last week that he interpreted an innocuous question as an attack. When a TIME reporter noted that his popularity was proving the pundits wrong, Bush became testy. "Who sent you here?" he asked...