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You Might Like � � � You Might Like � � � � � � � � � Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium The first babies conceived with a sperm-injecting robot have been born - MIT Technology Review    Last spring, engineers in Barcelona packed up the sperm-injecting robot they’d designed and sent it by DHL to New York City. They followed it to a clinic there, called New Hope Fertility Center, where they put the instrument back together, assembling a microscope, a mechanized needle, a tiny petri dish, and a laptop.  Then one of the engineers, with no real experience in fertility medicine, used a Sony PlayStation 5 controller to position a robotic needle. Eyeing a human egg through a camera, it then moved forward on its own, penetrating the egg and dropping off a single sperm cell. Altogether, the robot was used to fertilize more than a dozen eggs. The result of the procedures, say the researchers, were healthy embryos—and now two baby girls, who they claim are the first people born after fertilization by a “robot.” Continued here Chuck Norris Facts will live forever, and so will Chuck Norris - ESPN.com    ON A BORING FRIDAY night in 2005, Ian Spector was sitting at his computer, unable to get ahold of any of his real-life friends. So, the high school senior eventually got antsy and decided to connect with his virtual friends instead. What happened next is the internet equivalent of Marie Curie discovering radium, or Thomas Edison inventing the telegraph. Ian Spector was about to become one of the internet's first meme kingmakers. That night, he logged onto SomethingAwful.com, a kind of pre-Reddit Reddit full of high school and college-aged hell-raisers who'd grown up stealing music on Napster, listening to the Jerky Boys make prank phone calls and matching funny photos with one-liners to goof around. Continued here The Shock of Japan's Extreme Heat - The New Yorker    Japan as a nation has long possessed a keen awareness of climate. Kigo, the phrases that evoke the feel of the seasons, are the foundation of haiku poetry. Shun, the term for seasonality, guides the menu selections at dining establishments, ranging from luxury restaurants to neighborhood izakaya. The distinctive trilling of bush warblers and the drone of cicadas are deployed in films as aural markers of place and time. The blooming of cherries in spring and the progression of autumnal colors in fall are covered by newscasters as nationwide happenings. The four seasons, known as shiki, could be called the beat and meter of nearly everything traditionally Japanese. Each time of year has its proponents, of course. But it could be argued that summer is Japan's favorite season of all. It is a time of neighborhood festivals, of baseball tournaments, of kakigōri shaved ice and other cool treats, of visits to beaches, and of hunting for bugs in ponds and forests—the stuff that fond childhood memories are made of, which is also undoubtedly why so much anime, such as Hayao Miyazaki's "Ponyo," Mamoru Hosoda's "Summer Wars," and Hideaki Anno's "Evangelion," is set in the summertime. Now climate change may threaten Japan's love affair with the summer season. Early in August, the Japan Meteorological Agency announced that the month of July had been the hottest on record, since 1898, when modern observation methods were introduced. The nation's average of 25.96 degrees Celsius broke a record set forty-five years earlier. In downtown Tokyo, temperatures soared nine degrees Celsius (sixteen degrees Fahrenheit) above the seasonal average. Continued here

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