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ELECTROJINKS. "Japan already boasts the world’s most advanced sex dolls from firms such as Kanojotoys or Orient Industries based in Tokyo. But over the past few months we have heard a great deal about the rise in popularity of a new breed of Japanese sex doll." https://lnkd.in/eRFTM9c View in LinkedIn

SUNSCREEN MYTH. "The belief that sunscreen lotion blocks vitamin D production is based on a 1987 study done by Matsuoka et al., that was funded by the ultraviolet foundation, which is supported by the tanning bed industry. Contradictory information was provided by Diehl and Chiu which concluded that although sunscreens are effective, many may not actually be blocking UV-B because they are improperly or inadequately applied." https://lnkd.in/dDKztC5 View in LinkedIn

GEISHA-BOT. "Toshiba has developed a Japanese Geisha-bot that will sing, talk to you – and potentially do a bit more. They say the robot is capable of displaying realistic emotions and could in the future be trained to look after humans – paving the way for androids to replace workers such as nurses or carers for the elderly." https://lnkd.in/ecuAzKy View in LinkedIn

NOT MUCH SUNLIGHT NEEDED. "It takes relatively little sunlight exposure to acquire adequate stores of vitamin D and few people wear enough clothes to prevent that from happening. Ten to 15 min of sunlight or daylight exposure to a small area of skin (e.g., the forearm or face, etc.) twice a week, without sunscreen, supplies all the vitamin D necessary for health." Assuming your D system is functioning normally. https://lnkd.in/dDKztC5 View in LinkedIn

CYBORG RISE. "We are going to see a merging of human and machines ... We will have direct brain connections to the virtual world and internet. Similarly more and more of our bodies will become machines (already people have implants and artificial limbs and this will only increase). Soon we will not be able to easily draw the line between human and machine / robot." http://mixedrealitylab.org/ View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues with the fascinating vitamin D story. Not only is vitamin D actually behaving more like a hormone than a vitamin, it has been used in the treatment of many diseases. Few other natural molecules are so pivotal in health as this remarkable substance. View in LinkedIn

THE BRILLIANT AND TRAGIC TURING. "Turing's pivotal role in cracking intercepted coded messages enabled the Allies to defeat the Nazis in many crucial engagements, including the Battle of the Atlantic ... Turing was prosecuted in 1952 for homosexual acts, when such behaviour was still criminalised in the UK. He accepted treatment with oestrogen injections (chemical castration) as an alternative to prison." https://lnkd.in/eT3AD4p View in LinkedIn

TURING TEST. "Turing put forward the idea of an 'imitation game', in which a human being and a computer would be interrogated under conditions where the interrogator would not know which was which ... if the interrogator could not distinguish them by questioning, then it would be unreasonable not to call the computer intelligent." http://www.turing.org.uk/scrapbook/test.html View in LinkedIn

SUPER-INTELLIGENCE. "It was in the 1950 paper that Turing held, most fully and confidently, that computers would, in time, be programmed to acquire abilities rivalling human intelligence." http://www.turing.org.uk/scrapbook/test.html View in LinkedIn

TURING'S OPTIMISM. "The prospect of Artificial Intelligence was raised as an issue for the general public from the very start, stimulated by the success of wartime science technology. In 1949 the brain surgeon Geoffrey Jefferson spoke out against it in a lecture 'The Mind of Mechanical Man'. In response, Turing told the London Times that 'their research would be directed to finding out... to what extent [the machine] could think for itself.' " http://www.turing.org.uk/scrapbook/test.html View in LinkedIn