Rossum’s Universal Robots is not a particularly good play, but it’s important for one very simple reason: it introduced the word “robot” to the world.
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Sleeping In Two Segments – Business Insider
A lost hour when we woke up for praying, thinking, and sex.
Ancient Greeks used snakes as projectile weapons / Boing Boing
People in ancient Greece used snakes as projectile weapons during sea battles, explains Gianni Insacco, a zoologist/paleontologist at Italy’s Insacco Museo Civico di Storia Naturale. Insacco&…
Source: Ancient Greeks used snakes as projectile weapons / Boing Boing
DPopTart, neuwitch: What is the woman tax? The woman tax…
The woman tax (or pink tax) is the increased cost women pay, not for makeup, but rather simply purchasing items to meet very basic needs. The woman tax (or pink tax) refers to the extra money tacked on to the products and services targeted toward women. Besides the ridiculous notion that an item could be “gendered”, the woman tax is a real, measurable manifestation of the capitalist patriarchy.
