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...have a genetic institute for cockroaches." Instead, the researchers recruited some engineers to build them roach robots that would slip into the crowd and manipulate it from within. "It turns out," he says, "that roaches aren't very discriminating" - they'll accept anything of roughly the right size and smell. In the end, the engineers came up with little wheeled robots shaped like matchboxes and perfumed with eau de roach. They were programmed to have the same likes and dislikes as roaches - that is, to prefer crowds and darkness...
...wait till the next generation: LG makes a phone with a breathalyzer built in. Sprint and Nextel have introduced Sprint Family Locator, kind of like LoJack for your kids. Several companies are trying out scented phones, while Nokia dreams of developing one with smell sensors. Samsung is at work with South Korean scientists on cell phones, according to the Korea Times, "that can feel, think, evolve and reproduce" and have "artificial chromosomes," all of which suggests that our gadgets will eventually replace us as parents--pestering, tracking, supervising and ultimately procreating...
...think the motion to table was a reasonable one in many ways, particularly if [Matory’s] motion was going to fail, as it clearly was,” he wrote. “However I thought the tabling was premature and didn’t smell good, coming before and therefore curtailing sufficient discussion, particularly from those who might have spoken in favor.” One-sixth of the Faculty is required to conduct an official vote. Yesterday’s attendance of 135 fell 10 short of that level. —Staff writer Johannah...
...sweet smell of economic recovery. Stock markets around the globe are resurgent, corporate spending looks set to rise, and optimists are even talking about a return to the golden years of noninflationary growth in the mid-1990s. But how strong is this upturn, really--and is it sustainable...
Next to it is a flight of stairs that leads up to the choral library. This dank space, with the pert smell of cement, has high, downward-sloping ceilings. Choir secretaries who serve as librarians of the literature. Metal shelves holding alphabetized black boxes full of music sheets lined the intricately latticed wooden wall that the choral library shares with Appleton Chapel...