Robotic Baby Makes Life-Like Facial Expressions

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This creepy-looking robot baby can make disturbingly life-like facial expressions and reacts to people around it using HD cameras in its eyes.

Didn't See That Coming of the Day

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Didn't See That Coming of the Day
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When police received a report that teenagers had egged a house in Framingham, Masschusetts early last month, no one expected the culprits to be police officers from the neighboring town of Newton. The homeowner, a superior officer himself, decided against pressing charges against the three police men.

YOLO of the Day

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YOLO of the Day
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15-year-old Sarah Hine from Essex, London accidentally left an invite for her birthday party open on a school computer with the message, "can everyone stop telling me how f**ked my house is gunna get after this part .. worth it YOLO." As a result, an estimated $50,000 worth of damage was caused to the home after classmates raided the party en masse (Image via East News Press)

That Didn't Last of the Day

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That Didn't Last of the Day
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This past Saturday, Pakistan officials decided to lift the country's ban YouTube that's been in place since September 17th after riots supposedly caused by the anti-Islam video The Innocence of Muslims. After the television news network Geo reported the ban's lift, Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf reenacted the ban after a mere three minutes.

Lester Chambers Kickstarter Project

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Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian launched a Kickstarter project to raise money to finance an album by musician Lester Chambers in protest of major record companies treatment of artists. Within 10 days, the campaign has already received over $32,000 of its $39,000 goal.

PBS Idea Channel: Do We Want the World to End?

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Submitted by: Lisa Romagnoli (via youtu.be)
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The 2012 Mayan Apocalypse is only a few days away . . . and there are a lot of people wondering if it's going to happen. Sorry to burst your bubble, but (Spoiler Alert) nothing's going to change.The so-called Mayan long count calendar predication of the apocalypse is based a fundamental MISUNDERSTANDING of Mayan calendars and society. It's so far off base that scientific and anthropological experts can dismiss it with laugh. Yet, if it's so fundamentally wrong, why do we keep hearing about it? Why are there movies and news casts and websites dedicated to this non-event? Watch the episode and find out!!!!