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Leave it up to a robot – We predict that the future will reveal a world filled with robots, and there are all kinds of them out there already. How do you teach someone to trust, especially someone who has been emotionally “burned” in the past? You get them a “trust robot.”
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Seafood from the Gulf is OK – Did the BP oil spill contaminate Gulf Coast seafood? After receiving a shipment of Louisiana seafood samples collected by a reporter with “Good Morning America,” Texas researchers found NO evidence of petroleum hydrocarbons.
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Last week Chris Dunn fascinated Revelations listeners with the first part of this series on Egyptian technology. This week, he gets into some of the extraordinary proof that this amazing technology must have existed–because the effects of its use are scattered all through the ruins of ancient Egypt.

Don’t miss Chris Dunn’s great website. Click here.

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One problem with genetically-modified crops is that their seeds spread far and wide and contaminate fields where other crops are growing. Scientists have found populations of wild plants with genes from genetically modified canola in the United States.

Globally, canola can interbreed with 40 different weed species, and 25% of those weeds can be found in the US. These findings raise questions about the regulation of herbicide resistant weeds and about how these plants might compete with others in the wild. Researcher Meredith Schafer says, “We really don’t know what the consequences of the gene escape are. We don

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