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  • "The point is to be our most creative selves..." ---/Sherry Turkle - Frontline "Digital Nation"
  • :"It is reasonable to grant (one ought to grant) some degree of credence to whatever qualified men and women agree on..." ----Booth, 1974
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The Shadow robot hand system. The Shadow Dexterous Hand is a humaniform robot hand system developed by The Shadow Robot Company in London. The hand is comparable to a human hand in size and shape, and reproduces all of its degrees of freedom. The Hand is commercially available and currently used by NASA, The University of Bielefeld and Carnegie Mellon University.
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Stairway to Heaven - Picture of the Day - June 2009 08 - La Défense is a major business district for the communes (or cities) of Paris, bordering Neuilly-sur-Seine, west of the city itself.
The Dying Gaul, a Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic work of the late third century BC Capitoline Museums, Rome.
Hamandir Sahib or Darbar Sahib (also known as the Golden Temple). The holiest shrine in Sikhism located in the city of Amritsar, India. Picture of the Day. May 25, 2011
By the mid 20th century, humans had achieved a mastery of technology sufficient to leave the atmosphere of the Earth for the first time and explore space.

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