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I, for one, welcome our new follicle-sucking surgical robot overlords:

A robot that can pluck and move individual hair follicles on a person’s head makes hair transplants look more natural than those performed by humans, a US company claims.

Oh, the wonders of modern medical science.  Don’t you just get a happy little tingle every time you see the words “robot” and “pluck” together in a sentence?  Neither do I.

Once the “harvest” is over, the patient sits up to let the robot implant the follicles into the top of their head.

Again, another word that is just sinister when paired with robot: “harvest”.  Shudder.

Joseph Dimow gives a personal account of his participation in the infamous Milgram experiments:

I was very suspicious and asked a number of questions: Isn’t it dangerous? How do you know the learner doesn’t have a bad heart and can’t take the shocks? What if he wants to stop, can he get out of the chair? The professor assured me that the shocks were not painful or harmful since the amperage was lowered as the voltage increased. He let me feel what a 45-volt shock would be like: a slight tickle. I asked the learner if he was willing to do this and why he didn’t have any questions. He said, “Let’s try it.” With some trepidation on my part, we began the experiment.

(via MeFi)

Peregrine falcon chicks began hatching today in their nest in the tower atop the Kodak world headquarters building in downtown Rochester.  Just in time for Mother’s Day¹.  Aww.  Can you even stand the cuteness of it all?

Kodak provides a webcam in their nest, and you can watch the rest of the eggs hatch over the next few days.

Volvo plans to create an injuryproof car by 2020:

Automakers, parts suppliers, governments and global agencies from the United Nations to the OECD are all looking at ways to relegate to memory the roughly 1.2 million deaths and 50 million injuries caused by motor vehicle crashes each year.

But in what some analysts see as a bid to hold its lead in consumer perceptions of safety, the Swedish carmaker now owned by Ford is the first to set a target date to eliminate death and injury in its cars.

That’s great news, because maybe then they can finally start working on an uglyproof car.

(via Scientific American)