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Robby the Robot and Robotic Persistence
This essay takes a \"memetic\" approach to a persistent figure of science fiction media, Robby the Robot of Forbidden Planet. The figure's persistence in the cultural imaginary reflects our conflicted attitude toward efforts at linking the technological body with an electronic mind, beginning in the post-war era and continuing today.
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Nova
Zero and infinity. These seemingly opposite, obvious and indispensable concepts are relatively recent human inventions. Discover the surprising story of how these key concepts that revolutionized mathematics came to be—not just once, but over and over again as different cultures invented and re-invented them across thousands of years.
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Secrets of World War II. The RAF versus the V-weapons
Rarely has a war produced such clear-cut reasons to fight as World War II. On the one hand were the totalitarian dictators Tojo, Hitler and Mussolini. On the other were the great democracies of the Western World who were gradually regaining their feet after the Great War of 1914-18 and the Wall Street Crash. Suddenly, ordinary men and women from all walks of life found themselves thrown into fearsome, nerve tingling situations worthy of any Hollywood movie. The untold stories are now examined in detail for the first time.
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MoneyWatch Report
New York State is suing Johnson & Johnson over its alleged role in the opioid epidemic. According to the two-billion-dollar lawsuit, a division of the pharmaceutical giant poured millions into marketing opioids and downplaying the risks. The company has faced extensive litigation in other states related to opioid abuse. In a statement, Johnson & Johnson called its marketing and promotion of opioids, quote, \"Appropriate and responsible.\"
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Channel surfing: Collars up for war
In the Grand Final eliminators for Robot Wars (BBC2), Chance II with its flipping ramp was pitted against Firestorm with its flipping arm. `Flipping' was used descriptively here. In the other eliminator, Hypno-Disc, with its 600rpm rotating wheel and unpleasant spikes, confronted Steg-O-Saw-Us, with suggestive knobbles along its back and a thumping dinosaur's tail powered, I believe, by a lawnmower engine. Robot Wars is a very strange spectacle, rather like WWF wrestling meets Young Scientist of the Year, or Operation Desert Storm meets county-level table tennis. The film-maker Nanni Moretti once dramatised the history of the Italian communist party as a game of water polo. Robot Wars is of the same stamp, the hostility of the western male sublimated into something less troubling, something that can be knocked up in the garage and then unleashed like a screaming id on wheels.
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The Free Lance-Star, Fredericksburg, Va., Rob Hedelt column
Feb. 13--Random responses from the overwhelmingly female crowd that rushed to the opening night of \"Fifty Shades of Grey\" Thursday evening demonstrate the difficulty of satisfying fans of the book or even those simply curious about this cultural phenomenon.
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The guide friday: Crunch time The screech of metal the roar of chainsaws Philippa Forrester in leather trousers. Jim White explains why men, women, children (and even spotty adolescents) can't get enough of Robot Wars
Radio enthusiasts with long memories will recall that Friday night used to be known as music night. Not any more. Thanks to the hugely successful Robot Wars, the eve of the weekend has become something considerably darker. Now, for a regular audience of four million, Friday night is sadists' night. And tonight for the grand final (6pm, BBC2) it is anticipated that double the regular number of devotees of destruction will hunker down in front of the television to enjoy the exquisite pleasure of seeing a few pieces of scrap iron powered by lawnmower engines torched to a frazzle, chain-sawed into oblivion and otherwise steaming, cranking and wheezing their way into the nearest skip. For true aficionados of robot warfare, it is a satisfaction substantially increased by the sight of the creators of the humiliated pieces of machinery being obliged to witness the destruction of their work, their faces a rictus of good-sportsmanship, wearing thin smiles which fail to disguise their pain at the monumental waste of time.
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The Albany Herald, Ga., Mary Braswell column
What else happened? -- The 1965 Voting Rights Act was signed into law which prohibited the unfair practices used to prevent blacks from registering to vote, and provided for federal registrars to go to states with a history of voting-related discrimination to ensure that the law was implemented. -- A new country music TV show titled \"Grand Ole Opry\" was videotaped live at Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.
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