Or...the toolbag fetch is an attempt to soften the marketing on this.

Show a video where an honest real workin' man is hitting nails with a hammer, and a robot buddy fetching him stuff = hey that's real cute and cuddly.

Show a video where the robot puts together a perfect 15 foot long stud wall in 5 minutes using the saw blade and nail gun attachments on their arms = oh fuck, my job is over, I might have to take to the streets here.

I agree that a lot of this is likely pre-programmed in, and this is really just showing off the speed and agility more than their actual usefulness. But they could have programmed it to be a construction worker, and instead they deliberately programmed it to be the 16 year old kid who fetches lunch and tools.

This. It's "compare the average human genome against the average neanderthal genome".

Comparing a specific human against a specific neanderthal will probably yield 3,030,000 different genes.

I almost feel like this doesn't qualify for Horan. He is so disconnected from reality that I'm not sure he is capable of understanding the concept of consent, never mind any child he comes into contact with.

He should have been forcibly committed a long time ago.

I did this for years. The period between Xmas and New Year's especially was always dead, and you could spend your days in the office, coming in late, surfing the web, watching movies, even going out to do a bit of shopping.

With kids though, it's just not worth it. For a start i want to spend some time with them when they're not at school. But even working from home, you have this "thing" hanging over you when you know you're supposed to be working but the kids want to sit and play the Switch instead.

Taking the time off is a psychological break as much as a physical one.

There's also a plausible hypothesis that there's a selection bias in effect when it comes to robustness in women.

The balance of births in a normal population ever so slightly favours men. That is, more boys are typically born than girls.

And when you control for all other factors, it turns out that pregnancies involving girls are slightly more likely to result in complications resulting in foetal death or spontaneous abortion. We don't know why.

What does this have to do with life expectancy? Well if girls have a tougher time getting through gestation, then that's an evolutionary selection pressure. Girls need a little "something" extra to survive the process than boys do.

As a result, the hypothesis suggests, born females have a biology which makes them slightly more resilient than born males. This makes little difference through most of life, but as you approach the end of life and the great longevity filter, those who are more robust will survive longer. Which happens to be women. Resulting in these huge demographic disparities when you get to the extreme ages.

I mean there's a legend over 3,000 years old about this very thing - hostile forces breaching the border on the pretence of good will. It's such a basic and fundamental security concept that we use the phrase "trojan horse" to refer to various scenarios.

I appreciate that 99% of refugees are genuinely fleeing danger, but the danger posed to some countries by that 1% is quite dramatic.

Calling every trend "the great <X>" just makes your article sound hacky.

It's weird. Is it a translation issue?

I assumed they used the word "exposed" specifically to avoid confusion with consumption - e.g. to include women who spent a lot of time socialising with drinkers during their pregnancy.

But no, they mean "women who consumed alcohol", not "women who were exposed to alcohol". That means something different.

Afaik, the light on a moonless night is mostly red and green light refracted across the atmosphere from the sun on the other side of the planet.

I've seen some charts suggesting starlight could be strong enough in isolation to illuminate, but it's still drowned out by the relatively bright sunen when it's behind the planet.

Like being in a cave, basically yes. For the human eye anyway.

Presuming you're in deep space in a spacesuit, with no light sources of much consequence, then in principle you wouldnt be able to see your hands in front of your face.

The galactic plane though would be very clear. I don't know if it would produce enough light for you to be able to actually see yourself, but it would definitely provide a background against which the shadow of your limbs would be visible and you'd have a sense of orientation.

If you were in extragalactic space, you would have no galactic plane, but you would have billions of galaxies and stars, which might provide enough light and variance for you to at least perceive shadows of your limbs and some sense of position.

No, but it may warrant further consideration. Certainly not conclusive enough to say, "no change was noted".

It's a common false-negative problem. "The differences were statistically insignificant" is only valid when you have a reasonable sample size. While technically it is correct to say, it implies a conclusion where none can be drawn.

Casualities too. The conclusion mentions no significant change in casualties, however the data suggests otherwise, especially for pedestrians.

The low sample size means it's far from definitive, but certainly enough of a differential to warrant consideration.

A reduction in traffic volumes + a potential/likely decrease in pedestrian casualities suggests that this is a good intervention to consider for city centres.

Yeah, I'd expect America to fuck this up alright.

In a sane world possession of an unlicensed or unregistered weapon would carry a jail term of 5-10 years, and likewise possession of a 3D printing schematic without being licenced to produce weapons would carry 5-10 in prison.

It wouldn't stop the problem, but would make it a fuck load harder to distribute.

But in America, they'll go "muh freedom" and some mouth breather will create an open library of weapon schematics and think that because they're only providing weapons and not using them, that they're morally OK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postperfusion_syndrome

It's a poorly understood but known issues of cognitive decline/impairment following the use of a bypass.

So doctors will always try to minimise the use of the bypass as much as possible.

The muscles also gets more efficient at expressing energy and removing lactase, which is an exchange requiring oxygen.

When you're exercising, your oxygen requirements increase, so you breathe faster and your your heart beats faster. This also ensures waste products are dealt with faster.

An athlete's baseline oxygen requirement as a result of training is lower than someone untrained because their body makes better use of each breath. Thus, RHR and BRPM is lower.

This is why someone who is extremely unfit will breath heavier and faster, even when resting.

Autism is diagnosed through a series of cognitive and behavioural exams. There is no genetic test for it.

Links between genetics and various ASDs are still only being understood and it appears to be more complex than simple genetics. In utero conditions and environmental factors may play a part.

So even if/when there's a genetic test it would be merely a probability indicator rather than a dead certainty.

If you believe you may be autistic, you must talk to a proper psychologist. There's no shortcut/free test.

For a country that is so obsessed with personal autonomy, freedom from big government and surveillance, you Americans sure do have a lot of big public databases with your names in them.

Here in Europe, given a name and an approximate location, my odds of finding a current home address are about 1 in 10.

I thought you meant that this was some real specific attempt to get rid of Sunday in particular; maybe an anti-religious thing in the new Republic.

But no, all days were eliminated, replaced with a ten-day week with days named "First" to "Tenth".

Why did you single out Sunday in particular?