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Happy Birthday Karel Čapek (and robots)

January 9, 2008 – 10:58 am

Today is the birthday of Karel Čapek, who is attributed with popularizing the term “robot,” which he introduced in his 1921 play “Rossum’s Universal Robots” (or R.U.R.). He gives credit to his brother Josef for inventing the word, which has its roots in the Slovak word robota which translates literally to “serf labor.” Čapek is [...]

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Not a Giant Squid

October 7, 2005 – 12:59 pm

This is what I get for getting sucked into looking at pictures of the giant squid photographed by those Japanese scientists…a link to this 1006_051006_pythoneatsgator.html. Apparently, if you eat something really mean and nasty, you should probably kill it first.

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