Daily Archives: April 13, 2012
Robot Wardens to Patrol Prisons
A jail in the eastern city of Pohang plans to run a month-long trial with three of the automatons in March.
The machines will monitor inmates for abnormal behaviour. Researchers say they will help reduce the workload for other guards.
South Korea aims to be a world leader in robotics. Business leaders believe the field has the potential to become a major export industry.
The three 5ft-high (1.5m) robots involved in the prison trial have been developed by the Asian Forum for Corrections, a South Korean group of researchers who specialise in criminality and prison policies.
It said the robots move on four wheels and are equipped with cameras and other sensors that allow them to detect risky behaviour such as violence and suicide.
9 Things You Didn’t Know Were Based on Sex
Sex is perhaps the single most powerful force in the universe. It drives and inspires almost everything we do and say. Without it, the human race would just be a lumbering system of bloated, unproductive fat sacks just waiting for the sweet embrace of glorious death. Here is just a glimpse of some of the seemingly innocuous things that the horizontal mambo has influenced in everything from words to cuisine to music.
Fate Magazine Archives
The following pages contain various FATE Magazine articles by Loyd Auerbach that are available for download. The articles are unedited versions of selected, articles and many of the pieces that appeared in his column “Psychic Frontiers” from 1991 through the end of 2004.
CONSPIRAPORN! 