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鈥淲hat kind of doctors will they be, these students who have never experienced human dissection?鈥�

contemplates the effect of a plan to stop medical students dissecting human cadavers

鈥淭he Turing test still has not been passed, though there is apparently a human being somewhere who failed it鈥�

Susan Greenfield in Wired UK, on attempts to build a conscious machine

鈥淕uy walks into a shrink鈥檚 office. Says he鈥檚 gay and wants to be straight. Shrink says, 鈥極K, I鈥檒l help.鈥� Don鈥檛 wait for the punch line. There isn鈥檛 one, because this isn鈥檛 a joke鈥�

, commenting on reports that 1 in 6 British psychiatrists admitted to having helped at least one patient attempt to alter their homosexual feelings

鈥淚t鈥檚 a warning about the pitfalls of our unshakeable belief in the limitless promise of our endeavors, regardless of reality鈥檚 constraints. It is a lesson about the dangers of our love affair with progress鈥�

reflects on the 20th anniversary of claims for cold fusion

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Irrawaddy dolphins The Wildlife Conservation Society of around 6000 of the freshwater cetaceans in Bangladesh. Previous estimates put the entire population at a few hundred.

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The afterglow of the big bang A pair of radio telescopes designed to pick out exquisite details in the cosmic microwave background have been axed.

Horizon scanner

Watch out for acres of coverage about Earth being hit by a slate-wiping space impact. 杏吧原创s gather in Granada, Spain, at the end of this month to discuss what could be done if they discovered an asteroid or comet on a collision course with the Earth