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Stroke a chicken over the internet"Scientists have developed a system which enables people to stroke a chicken over the internet. It's seen as the first step to virtual physical interaction, reports Wired News. The Touchy Internet system was created by researchers at the National University of Singapore. Users touch a chicken-shaped doll which duplicates the actions of a real chicken through a webcam link. Touch sensors on the doll send 'tactile information' over the internet to a second computer near the chicken. This computer triggers tiny vibration motors in a lightweight jacket worn by the chicken, meaning the chicken feels the user's touch in the exact same place as the doll was stroked. 'This is the first human-poultry interaction system ever developed,' said Professor Adrian David Cheok who has been developing the technology for nearly two years." [editor's note: Stroking chickens? Bah, humbug. How long until we can spank our monkeys over the ... never mind - TLK] (05/20/05)
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1402057.html

Vitamin D research turning sunscreen wisdom on head"Scientists are excited about a vitamin again. But unlike fads that sizzled and fizzled, the evidence this time is strong and keeps growing. If it bears out, it will challenge one of medicine's most fundamental beliefs: that people need to coat themselves with sunscreen whenever they're in the sun. Doing that may actually contribute to far more cancer deaths than it prevents, sme researchers think. The vitamin is D, nicknamed the 'sunshine vitamin' because the skin makes it from ultraviolet rays. Because sunscreen blocks vitamin D's production, some scientists are questioning the long-standing advice to always use it. The reason is that vitamin D increasingly seems important for preventing and even treating many types of cancer. ... [F]our separate studies [have] found it helped protect against lymphoma and cancers of the prostate, lung and, ironically, the skin. The strongest evidence is for colon cancer." (05/22/05)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?R5A642F1B

SurREAL ID: New licenses may mean loss of privacy"George Orwell's totalitarian 'Big Brother' is exactly the image to which pundits and critics compare the Real ID Act. Robert Dreyfuss, contributing editor to The Nation and Mother Jones, calls it 'a step toward a chilling, privacy-violating national ID card system that could one day have Americans being asked, Nazi-style, to 'show us your papers' wherever they go.' That's not so far-fetched, says Jeff Weaver, chief of staff for Rep. Bernie Sanders, one of only 58 House members to turn thumbs down on the measure. 'There is a real concern on a lot of people's part that this is the first step toward a national ID card,' said Weaver. 'To the extent that you create a federally mandated standardized driver's license process, you are certainly moving in that direction.'" (05/20/05)http://www.vermontguardian.com/local/0105/SurrealID.shtml

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