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[Chrenkoff] Good news from Afghanistan, Part 10: , "the US-led coalition forces will establish five new provincial reconstruction teams (PRTs) in Afghanistan. The PRTs are part of the civilian reconstruction efforts carried out by the Coalition Forces as well as the NATO led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). Colonel Randy Brooks, Director of Civil Military Operations for the coalition forces told a press conference on Monday that the five additional PRTs would bring the total number of PRTs to 24." Read here how a Provincial Reconstruction Team in

[Circadiana] WWDD4: Power of Darwinian Method: A male songbird which did not learn the courtship song from his father is not a complete bird: it is devoid of crucial hereditary information needed for reproduction, so it is an informational, as well as evolutionary dead end. A shiny, good-looking male sparrow will be chosen by the female and will reproduce, but, he does not have a "gene for" good looks. He is healthy because his father spent much time cleaning the nest and the chicks against parasites, and the son, who has presumably learned his father's hygienic habits, will do the same for his offspring. Pup-grooming behavior of the mother rat influences the extent of stress responses (including gene expression in brain regions that regulate stress reactivity) in her pups, as well as their subsequent pup-grooming behavior (Francis et al.

[Science And Politics] WWDD - IV. Power of Darwinian Method: Integrative studies of a smaller subset of organisms led to a better understanding of molecular, cellular and organismal integration of circadian mechanisms. Everybody in the field felt a need to follow the advances in all areas of clocks research - molecular, cellular, developmental, neuroendocrine, physiological, behavioral, ecological, including studies of higher level phenomena such as photoperiodism, other circa-rhythms, and continuously consulted clocks. Although past few years have witnessed enormous successes of the molecular research, there is no apparent tendency to jump on the molecular bandwagon and forget everything else. For instance, the 1998 meeting of the Society for the Research of Biological Rhythms had more sessions on different aspects of evolution, function and comparative studies of organismal clocks then molecular sessions.

[T21.ca] Trends: ... "Brooks acknowledges that the development of intelligent robots is still in ... Brooks imagines being able to roboticize large agriculture machines for ...

[Jcwinnie.biz] After Gutenberg » manufacturing: After Gutenberg » Blog Archive » Playground Patrol Droid: [...] on this page are to topics at the Learn about Robots site. Hm,...

[Unreasonableman.net] The Unreasonable Man: Robotic Farmers: “If you look at bees, they will go out and find nectar somewhere. Then a bee will go back and share this with the group and the whole group will collect the food. Similarly, one robot might find weed plants. Then it would communicate this location to the other robots and they would attack the plants together as a group--an ecosystem, if you will.”

[Betsyspage.blogspot.com] Betsy's Page: Now he's sent a letter to all the senators with his objections to Bolton's nomination to be ambassador to the UN. It surely sounds as if he hasn't read any the exposes that have been done by writers and bloggers about how weak these criticisms of Bolton actually are. I don't expect a senator to read the blogs or read conservative press, but doesn't he have anyone on his staff who pays attention to what conservative writers have had to say? Is there no one in his office who subscribes to The Weekly Standard or National Review or Wall Street Journal?

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