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Published on Monday, 18 February 2008 11:07 | | 
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Eminent physicist John Wheeler says he has only enough time left to work on one idea: that human consciousness shapes not only the present but the past as well.
Published on Monday, 18 February 2008 10:33 | | |
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Machines will achieve human-level artificial intelligence by 2029, leading US inventor Ray Kurzweil has predicted.
'Ultimately these computers will be in our bodies and brains...so it really is one civilization.'
Published on Monday, 18 February 2008 09:07 | |
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'I only know the names of two angels. Hark and Harold'.
Gregory, age 5
'Everybody's got it all wrong. Angels don't wear halos any more. I forget why, but scientists are working on it'.
Olive, age 9
'It's not easy to become an angel. First, you die. Then you go to heaven; then there's still the flight training to go through. And then you got to agree to wear those angel clothes.'
Matthew, age 9
Published on Monday, 18 February 2008 08:56 | | |
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The Albanian leaders of Kosova (or Kosovo or Kosovo i Metohija) declared themselves independent from Serbia at 03.00 pm on Sunday the 17th of February.
If you think that Kosovo is small and this is of little concern to you - allow me to tell you why this is a piece of European and world politics the importance of which stands in inverse proportion to the size of that tiny province.
Published on Sunday, 17 February 2008 12:53 | |
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Published on Sunday, 17 February 2008 10:39 | |
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Published on Saturday, 16 February 2008 21:15 | |
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A couple of thieves stole a public toilet in the Belarus city of Gomel with a man still locked inside.
The thieves reportedly loaded the portable toilet on the back of a tractor trailer, acting as if they were supposed to do that so passers-by wouldn't suspect anything and call the police.