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Geek Trivia: How many parents did Dolly the cloned sheep actually have?
Most modern versions of sci-fi clones don't have just one parent -- they have several -- and this goes for the world's most famous cloned mammal: Dolly the sheep.
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T-shirt(s) of the week: Star Wars conservation
April 22 is Earth Day, which leaves you just enough to time to show your support for conservation and the environment without exchanging your hard-earned geek-cred for a hippie tre...
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Geek Trivia: The quibble of the week for March 24, 2009
This week's quibble comes from the March 10, 2009 edition of Geek Trivia, "First down and three (laws of robotics)." TechRepublic member samwise51 questioned the described etymolog...
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Geek Trivia: The quibble of the week for March 17, 2009
This week's quibble comes from the March 10, 2009 edition of Geek Trivia, "First down and three (laws of robotics)." TechRepublic member gary suggested that we had misquoted the nu...
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Geek Trivia: First down and three (laws of robotics)
What iconic science fiction writer accidentally coined the term robotics -- despite the fact that no such term was used in "R.U.R.," the Czech play that popularized the word robot?
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T-shirt of the week: BenderBrau
For the discerning ultra-geeky, pop-culture-obsessed beer consumer who won't settle for just any common fictional brewsky, we recommend BenderBrau, a heady ale brewed by robots, fo...
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Counter-rant: Why giant mecha robots are totally awesome
Jeremiah Tolbert over at But Wouldn't It Be Cool? has taken the time to repudiate my assertion that giant mecha robots are stupid, taking the position that giant mecha robots are t...
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Sci-fi rant: Why giant mecha robots are stupid
The next person who says "I can't wait until the Army develops real mecha" gets a boot to the head, because in real life, giant robots are actually really stupid. Here's why.
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Transformers: More (crap) than meets the eye
Transformers: More (crap) than meets the eye
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Video: What if WWII was fought by giant robots?
Video: What if WWII was fought by giant robots?