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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

August news

Modularity and abstraction in a computer language? Its about time! Deep Thought not far away.

A robot controlled by artificial brain built from rat neurons. I wonder who got to say "its aliivve!"

Walpiri people here in Australia also fascinatingly have no words for numbers, yet they can count.

Dung beetles evolving

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