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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

Skin for Robots . . .

. . . Wait until the porn perverts get ahold of this stuff. Link [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4154366.stm]. Currently, the "skin" is only a receiver: of heat and pressure. But eventually we assume it could progress to feeling like skin, which would be great

Well, Far Out . . .

. . . but how many times have we found Atlantis now? > An undersea island hit by a tsunami 12,000 years ago may be the source of Plato's Atlantis myth, according to a geologist and a report this month in the journal Geology. > Marc-Andre Gutscher, a geologist

Leno on the Epidemic

> California education officials said today that the state of California needs 52,000 more teachers. They say we are facing a huge teacher shortage. In fact, by the year 2007, they said many students will be forced to have sex with each other.

Home Schooling Looking Better All the Time

We're tellin' ya, it's an epidemic: > Meet Kristen Margrif. The Michigan woman, 27, is a high school English teacher. So can you guess why she was just arrested? That's right, Margrif has been accused of having sex with a 16-year-old

Giving the Rest of Us Morning Sickness

Here comes the "maternity is so beautiful it oughtta be naked" phenom again: > Demi Moore has revealed that she and toyboy boyfriend Ashton Kutcher are planning to have a baby. > In an eye-opening interview with Harper's Bazaar magazine the 42-year-old actress

Get Those Boys Asylum Applications!

Gang warfare in Guatemala's prisons. Incredible. > The latest incidents are thought to have erupted after members of one of Central America's most notorious gangs, the Mara Salvatrucha, clashed with members of their main rival, Mara 18. > The gangs appear to have co-ordinated the

Stretching Asylum

Give me your tired, your poor, your sexually promiscuous . . . > A court in the US has ruled that a gay Mexican with Aids is eligible for asylum because of the danger of persecution in his home country. Link [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4149892.stm]. It'

Oh, the Inhumanity of It All!

Fire up the Sicilian ACLU! > Italy has arrested 141 people in a security swoop following the bombings in London and Egypt last month and remains at high risk from an attack by Islamic militants, the Interior Ministry said on Monday. > Italy, the subject of several Internet threats from

Brits Stealing Signs

It's a little off-color for this site, but it's too funny not to post: > The mayor of an Austrian town called 'F**king' has appealed to British tourists to stop stealing the road signs. > The Austrian town of 'F***ing&

Encouraging

Britain is looking into ways to stem the flood of violently pornographic websites in its country. They're apparently more hopeful than their U.S. counterparts that something can be done. Link [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/08/15/nporn15.xml&sSheet=