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Harvard scientists successfully make fly-like robots that can hover, fly around
US scientists have devised tiny winged robots inspired by flies that could one day help pollinate crops or aid the search for survivors at collapse sites — once they get off the leash, that is. The prototypes by researchers at Harvard University weigh 80 milligrams and have managed short controlled…
Harvard rounds up emails to find professor who leaked cheating scandal
Boston Globe reports the Ivy League university secretly spied on emails during investigation into leak about cheating scandal A covert security operation at Harvard University saw the emails of 16 resident deans secretly searched in an attempt to unmask the culprit who leaked details of a cheating scandal at the…
Dozens suspended in Harvard cheating scandal: report
Around 60 students at Harvard University have been suspended and others disciplined in a mass cheating scandal at the elite college, a report in the campus newspaper said Friday. The Harvard Crimson quoted an email from Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Michael Smith that said more than half of…
Harvard scientist seeks ‘adventurous female’ to give birth to cloned Neanderthal
Professor George Church not only believes that he can clone a Neanderthal, but that a extremely adventurous female human” would be able to give birth to one. According to The Daily Mail, Church, a geneticist and professor of synthetic biology at Harvard University, said he can use fossil samples to…
Harvard University approves bondage club
Expect some serious discipline at Harvard University’s newest club — the first bondage and sado-masochism hotspot to win official campus approval. Harvard College Munch, as the group is named, promises to give the student body a chance to beat misconceptions about S&M by providing “accurate understandings of alternative sexualities and…
Harvard probes mass cheating in ‘Intro to Congress’ course
NEW YORK — As many as 125 students at Harvard University are being probed for allegedly cheating in a final exam at the elite institution, administrators said Thursday. The official university site news.harbard.edu/gazette reported that a large number of undergraduates “may have inappropriately collaborated on answers, or plagiarized classmates’ responses,…
Scientists create most disgusting robot yet
Scientists create most disgusting robot yet (+video) (via The Christian Science Monitor) An international team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and Seoul National University have succeeded in creating the world’s most disgusting robot. Known as Meshworm, the soft, repugnant automaton moves via peristalsis, a method…
Obama’s first-ever TV appearance in 1991 uncovered
Long before he became the President of the United States, Barack Obama made his first television appearance while he was the editor at Harvard University’s Law Review, over 20 years ago in a Black History Month segment for Turner Broadcasting Station (TBS). The future leader of the free world’s segment…
Gingrich proposes replacing janitors with children, gets mic checked by Occupy Boston
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich proposed Friday evening that public school janitors be replaced by children in order to help solve the income gap in America. Gingrich, as usual, took many shots at the left during his speech at Harvard University’s Kennedy School. “This is something that no liberal wants…
NYT’s $50 million ‘paywall’ crumbles with simple code exploit
Want to stay up-to-date with The New York Times? It used to be as simple as keying up nytimes.com. Today though, with a new “paywall” that denies access to new stories to non-subscribers, avid news junkies far and wide are facing a future where information comes at an increasingly high…
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