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r0B0t: All they need to know is this is the coolest thing they'll see all year  
This robot stingray is powered by genetically engineered rat heart cells. It has an elastomer body and a stiff gold skeleton. Rat heart cells are grown in a specific pattern on the underside, and are activated by pulses of light -- allowing the robot to be remote controlled as it navigates through a liquid with suspended nutrients that keep the cells alive. More details from Science. Even Popular Mechanics doesn't need to do much sensationalizing to this story. 
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r0B0t: The heartbreaking saga of Mighty No. 9 - Destructoid  

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The heartbreaking saga of Mighty No. 9 Destructoid So how about we see what resident decommissioned fighting robot Tony Ponce has to dig up about the story of Beck. ~Strider]. This is an article I was never sure I would write. I've gone back and forth over past last year and half, itching to put my ...

 
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How To Heal The Planet - Become A Conscious Consumer  

I often wonder what it would be like to live in the perfect environmental world - a world where people were conscious enough always to say excuse me, please and thank you. A world where people were transparent and didn't try to cheat you or lie for their betterment. A world where trust was a value that was honored, not a quality easily disregarded. A world where we acted consciously to protect our air, rivers, oceans, and wildlife in order to ensure a promising future for our children.

Imagine There're No Toxins
It's hard to imagine how carefree I would feel if I didn't have to worry about toxins seeping into our skin and poisoning our bodies. If I didn't worry that the air we breathe might be damaging our lungs or whether there was lead or mercury in the water we drink. If I didn't have to worry about fish being overfished until there were none left or worry about whether everyone had access to organic and healthy foods.

It's all hard to imagine. But I can. I can envision an incomprehensibly beautiful life without this kind of daily worry.

My Perfect World
In my perfect world, the injustices of the social anxiety being created by climate change and overpopulation that is creating the fissure splitting our world apart would vanish. A need for "Food Justice" would not exist. Healthcare expenses would drop dramatically as a benefit of a healthier and cleaner diet. In my perfect world, the social anxiety surrounding the damage we are doing to our planet - an anxiety that few want to talk about - would not exist.

But it's not enough to just imagine. Steps have to be taken.

The Trillion-Dollar Question
Who can stop this rising social anxiety around climate change that is decimating our civilization? Who can change this? Who can make my vision of an environmentally perfect world real?

Is it our next President? Is it Congress? Is it Google? Do we need to call in The Terminator? Or is it you and me?

The answer is all of the above. No one person or entity alone can right all the wrongs. But together, as part of a small but growing group of Conscious Consumers (CC) like myself, positive and effective change is possible.

It's about making choices to change habits within a society that sees disposable options as convenient and a good thing and "now" as being more important than a future.

Please don't misunderstand my use of "now." I wholeheartedly believe in being present and living in the moment. But that does not preclude being conscious as to how our actions affect the future of our planet and the health and lives of our children.

How To Become A Conscious Consumer
Think twice before you buy something you don't need. When you buy something new, give away something older to someone who needs it more than you do. Stop before you eat past feeling full. It will allow more food to be given to someone who needs it. Pause before you get in the car by yourself to do just one errand. Carpool when possible. Clustering people and errands will save gas. Read labels. Support eco-friendly companies like those listed on my Greenopia website.

Every little action lightens your carbon footprint and is a step forward towards saving the world for future generations. The side benefit - at least for me - is that it feels good when I am consciously contributing to making a difference in the world.

The Not Impossible Mission
It might seem impossible to save our out of control planet. It might seem like there is no hope and we've gone too far. Or that there is nothing you can personally do to change the direction we're headed. But even in Mission Impossible, when Tom Cruise's character, Ethan Hunt chooses to accept, he alters the course of events.

Beyond Politics And Religion
Whatever your religion, your political persuasion or your spiritual practices are, consciousness is at the core of all of them as is doing good deeds and the idea of paying it forward. You may deny climate change, but you can't deny yourself and others the desire to live a life of health and wellness.

Being a Conscious Consumer is part of being a good citizen of the world. Are you ready to join me? Please visit Greenopia and sign up and join our community and start creating your own green utopia. Your commitment can help alter the course of climate change.

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To Stop "Bomb Trains," I Honeymooned in Jail  
It was a few days after my wedding. I was supposed to be honeymooning at a nearby winery with my newly minted husband, celebrating our unlikely marriage at age 55.

Instead, I was sitting on the railroad tracks in the pouring rain. Along with 20 other brave souls, some weeping, some singing, I was facing down a locomotive in a town -- Vancouver, Washington -- that many fear will be forced to accept the largest oil-by-rail terminal in the country.



Why would anyone do something like that?

Because a few short days before, we'd watched in horror as a mile-long train filled with Bakken crude derailed in Mosier, Oregon and burst into towering flames.

We call these oil trains "bomb trains" because we know, with one tiny loose bolt, they can erupt into an inferno, scorching everything for miles. It happened in Lac-Megantic, Canada in 2013. Forty-seven people were killed in a matter of minutes, the town leveled when a train's brakes failed.

In the aftermath of the Mosier derailment, local fire chief Jim Appleton, who was originally unwilling to condemn oil trains, was beginning to sound more and more like one of us: "I think it's insane" to ship oil by rail, he told a reporter. "Shareholder value doesn't outweigh the lives and happiness of our community."

And yet shareholder value is outweighing the lives and happiness of communities all over the world. I live in the "blast zone" less than a mile from tracks that ply this dangerous cargo here in the Pacific Northwest. And millions of people, most of them on the other side of the world, are already feeling the heat.

More bomb trains, after all, mean more climate change. Rising temperatures mean dangerous weather patterns, like the floods that recently killed hundreds in Pakistan, India and China.

Meanwhile, ExxonMobil, whose scientists knew as early as the 1960s that catastrophic climate change would ensue if they didn't change course, has invested in climate denial in order to maximize their shareholder value, counting on us to not connect the dots.

I grew up in India. I can see the faces of friends and loved ones on Facebook enduring record heat and flooding there. So if the trains wouldn't stop coming, I figured, I'd put my body on the line in Vancouver. If I went to jail, I hoped my husband would forgive me for skipping out on our first big date as newlyweds.

The riot police were beginning to gather, and the railroad's private police were issuing their warnings while hundreds chanted nearby. Not wanting to lose valuables in jail, I gave my wallet, cell phone, and wedding ring to a friend.

Then they hauled us off, one by one, in plastic handcuffs like tiny angel's wings behind each protestor's back. They put the 13 women -- as young as 21 and as old as 85 -- in one cell and the eight men in the other.

Seven hours later, as we were released from our windowless cage into the beautiful summer evening, I felt an unspeakable gratitude to my cellmates and those who awaited us outside.

Should we go to trial, many of us will be arguing we did this out of necessity, in order to prevent a far greater looming evil -- of being incinerated in our sleep, of doing nothing to stop this deadly fossil fuel cargo while hundreds of thousands of people die each year from floods, disease, malnutrition, and heat stress due to climate change.

Call me crazy, but we might just win this one. And in so doing, we'll send a very strong message to the oil companies that threaten us all that they must end this madness.

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Activists Use Video To Document Police Violence  

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Arthur Reed, also known as Silky Slim. He is the founder of Stop the Killing Inc., the activist group that released the footage of Alton Sterling's killing in Baton Rouge, La. They discuss the role of videos in the effort to document police violence.

 
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Synthetic Stingray May Lead To A Better Artificial Heart  

Using gold, silicone and heart cells from a rat, scientists have made a tiny artificial stingray. The engineering involved in propelling it could help make a heart that's more than a mechanical pump.

 
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Minnesota Gov. Calls Traffic Stop Shooting 'Absolutely Appalling At All Levels'  

The killing of Philando Castile, 32, in suburban St. Paul, Minn., is the second police shooting of an African-American man to gain national attention this week.

 
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Video Of Baton Rouge Man's Fatal Shooting By Police Sparks Protests, FBI Inquiry  

In the video, Alton Sterling is on the ground when one of the officers kneeling over him yells "He's got a gun!" Then at least one officer draws a weapon from his holster. The FBI is investigating.

 
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r0B0t: fsociety 'hacks' the 'Mr. Robot' Facebook page  
More about Usa Network, Facebook, Mr Robot, Tv, and Entertainment  
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r0B0t: Harvard researchers built a living robot out of rat hearts  
What do you get when you mix the heart cells of a rat with silicone from breast implants and then sprinkle in a bit of gold and genetic engineering? No, not Trump's next trophy wife -- you actually get this incredible "living" robot. Developed by a t...  
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r0B0t: Tiny mutant stingray that is part-machine, part-RAT can swim gracefully - Daily Mail  

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Tiny mutant stingray that is part-machine, part-RAT can swim gracefully Daily Mail When you think of a robot, you may imagine a shiny, metallic machine with a jerky gait. But engineers have created a robotic stingray that mimics the movement of the graceful and efficient marine creature. Stranger still, the robo-ray is powered and ... With gold and rat heart cells, scientists make a robot stingrayLos Angeles Times Synthetic Stingray May Lead To A Better Artificial HeartNPR Flight of fancyThe Economist Gizmodo -The Guardian -Popular Science -Science Magazine all 22 news articles »

 
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r0B0t: Robots rolling in dough - Mountain View Voice  

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Robots rolling in dough Mountain View Voice Long answer the company is positioning itself to take advantage of automation, particularly the potential to have a pizza kitchen and delivery system that can essentially run on autopilot. That means a digitized ordering system, a robotic pizza ... and more »

 
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r0B0t: Robot helps study how first land animals moved 360 million years ago  
When early terrestrial animals began moving about on mud and sand 360 million years ago, the powerful tails they used as fish may have been more important than scientists previously realized. That's one conclusion from a new study of African mudskipper fish and a robot modeled on the animal.  
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r0B0t: The Little Mermaid should have kept her tail — it might have helped fish walk  

Studies with robots and mathematical models suggest that tails could have helped propel early landlubbers around.  
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r0B0t: How to catch up on … Mr Robot  

The world of hackers, paranoia and opioid abuse was one of last summer's surprise hits. Here's our guide in Elliot's journey ahead of season two

Spoiler alert: this blog contains the plot from season one of Mr Robot

As a network, USA has traditionally been the home of “blue sky” procedurals where there's no problem that can't be overcome in the span of 60 minutes. That's why Mr Robot was a shock last summer. The gritty story of a hacker with a drug problem and mental health issues trying to take down capitalism by forgiving the world's debt didn't really make sense alongside the likes of the relatively happy-go-lucky Royal Pains and Burn Notice.

Related: Mr Robot: what we know about season two

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