It’s a little bit Rube Goldberg for both of the purposes people are talking about, but who cares. It’s a robot! (And reminding me of a Big Bang Theory episode about a robot arm…)

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I just stumbled across my chapter from the anthology Naked Ambition, written five years ago, from a completely different life than I have now.
I still really like it. (In fact, my first thought was, “wow, I hope I can still write like this.” Heh.)
It begins thusly:

Every week, I expose myself to a hundred thousand people [...]

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I can’t remember if I knew this already, but if I did, I’d forgotten. I think the subject matter of this book makes it perfect for electronic format. You can take action on several of the tips right there on your iThingie, Droid, Kindle, or other device without even leaving the book! How efficient is [...]

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This is why I don’t trust stories about new findings in sex or relationships, no matter how fun the conclusion might be. Sometimes even reading the abstract of the actual study, and preferably the whole study paper, does not ease my suspicions. Not that my intuition or feelings constitute evidence against the accuracy of a [...]

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bodyLab is researching attraction and has a couple of studies you can participate in. One study collects information about faces and the other collects information about bodies. In both cases, you rate an avatar on a scale of “less attractive than average” up to “more attractive than average.” The lowest scoring faces and body shapes [...]

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