The Dead Grandmother/Exam Syndrome and the Potential Downfall Of American Society.: “Students must never let any of their relatives know that they are at university. (Initial field tests show that keeping just the grandmother ignorant is neither feasible nor safe for the rest of the family.) It is not enough merely to lie about exams;…

Mind Control – Bewu?tseinskontrolle: “I must confess that ‘they’ let in my subconscious fragments of music, simple words,’they’ lead me to sound-hearing illusions, which have sometimes ‘magic-demoniac’ basis thanks to image manipulation on the field of vision. I think that I have become a guinea pig for illegal experiments of mindcontrol. I assume that I…

Salon.com Life | Clothes make the mullah: “In the middle-class salons of Tehran these days, one of the lighter topics of conversation is President Khatami’s wardrobe. He is seen as very elegant, and in fact as a bit of a dandy.” And you thought the British press was bitchy about fashion…

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CNN.com – Fly-eating robot powers itself – Dec 29, 2004: “The EcoBot II uses human sewage as bait to catch the insects. It then digests the flies, before their exoskeletons are turned into electricity, which enables the robot to function.”