Reality Checks: Non Science of Robot Sex, Wind Turbines for Antarctica, Dinosaur Nesting, and Sexually Dimorphic Brains

Elizabeth — December 1, 2015

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A conference on sex and love with robots has been cancelled. The police, experts as they are, say there is nothing scientific about sex with machines. I’m really disappointed. (via BBC)
The wind turbines that will work in Antarctica. (via Ars Technica)
Comparing bird nesting with dinosaur nesting (via MirrorDaily)
Male and female human brains aren’t really that different. We are not shocked. (via Sciencemag).

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Elizabeth is a professional belly dancer, a flaky computer scientist, and a returned Peace Corps volunteer. She lives in Georgia (the state of the U.S., not the country) but is nonetheless somehow not a combination of stereotypes from Gone with the Wind and Deliverance. Her personal blog is Coffeefied. Operafied. Fluffified. Beglittered.

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