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...Some of the robots exist simply to amuse. Montreal's WowWee Ltd., for example, used technology that trickled down from the military and NASA to create Robosapien, a cartoonish humanoid with cutting-edge capabilities. Standing around 61 cm tall, he can perform 80 functions, including disco dancing, kicking and kung...
...have to perform to a certain level," says Carol Cadby, a teacher and mother of a 7-year-old and a 10-year-old in Arlington, Va. "When they were little, it was Chuck E. Cheese. Now it's laser tag. Next it's going to be a concert or a game. It's no longer a family thing - it's an event...
What are you doing when you aren't doing anything at all? If you said "nothing," then you have just passed a test in logic and flunked a test in neuroscience. When people perform mental tasks--adding numbers, comparing shapes, identifying faces--different areas of their brains become active, and brain scans show these active areas as brightly colored squares on an otherwise dull gray background. But researchers have recently discovered that when these areas of our brains light up, other areas go dark. This dark network (which comprises regions in the frontal, parietal and medial temporal lobes...
Starting Feb. 19, same-sex couples in N.J. can obtain civil-union licenses--and get the legal benefits of married couples. It's the third state to do so, but clergy can decline to perform the ceremony...
...Theater, providing the perfect mode of acceptable procrastination as you finish up studying for finals. Thursday, Jan. 18 at 6 p.m. The Brattle Theater 40 Brattle St. $3 3)Tracy Morgan, Live! Saturday Night Live veteran and star of the newest NBC comedy, 30 Rock, returns to Boston to perform a solo act that’s sure to be absolutely hilarious. Tracy Morgan, famous for his hysterical portrayal of Brian Fellow on SNL, may not have wowed audiences with his own Tracy Morgan Show, but this Maya Angelou impersonator has proved he’s always good...