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Meet your talking robot co-worker of the future
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:14:56 EDT When Trevor Blackwell, CEO of a company called Anybots, wants to know what his employees are up to, he sends a robot to their cubicles. |
5 sequel games to look forward to
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:14:50 EDT When a series of video games is beloved by fans, it's risky for makers to put a new game in the series out for testing. |
Is this high-tech bridge the safest in America?
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:01:51 EDT Just about everyone who worked to build the new Interstate Highway 35W bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota, knew that their project would never be "just a bridge." It would never occupy the same category as thousands of other concrete and steel behemoths that millions of American drivers thoughtlessly cross every day. |
YouTube wants your 15 minutes of fame
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:01:20 EDT Good news for everyone out there who's ever thought to themselves: "A 10-minute video of my cat eating ribs on the kitchen floor is just too short." |

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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for July 31, 2010 is:
sirenian \sye-REE-nee-un\ noun
: any of an order (Sirenia) of aquatic herbivorous mammals (as a manatee, dugong, or Steller's sea cow) that have large forelimbs resembling paddles, no hind limbs, and a flattened tail resembling a fin
Example sentence:
"Looking humanlike in certain aspects, sirenians are thought to be the basis of the myth of mermaids." (Michael McCarthy, The Independent [London], February 28, 2009)
Did you know?
"Sirenian" traces back via Latin to Greek "seirēn," which is equivalent to our word for the sirens of Greek mythology. And what is the connection between sirens and sirenians? Modern sirenians do not resemble the half bird, half woman creatures who lured sailors to their doom with their sweet singing. But as our example sentence states, sirenians are considered by some to underlie the ancient legends about mermaids. In European folklore mermaids were sometimes called "sirens," and apparently this confusion resulted in the granting of sirenians the name they bear today.
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