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When a couple wants to test their ability to take care of a child before they have one, they usually get a pet. Now you can go a step further and for $80,000, you can get a childlike robot called AstroBoy. Sony is working on a robot that can interact with its “parents,” expressing emotions with words, songs and body language. Or you can get a hybrot that’s smart because its brain is made up of living cells harvested from the brain of a rat.

Steve Potter?s rat-controlled robot is a cylindrical machine the size of a coffee mug. It does its thinking with a network of neurons taken from the brains of rat embryos and placed on an electrode-activated silicon chip. This is the first time living neurons have been used to control a robot.
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Sociologists have long known that there are more religious women than men. Professor Rodney Stark thinks we should not ask why women are more religious, but why men are less interested in religion. “When you turn the question around it starts to get us somewhere and the evidence pretty strongly points to physiology, not socialization,” he says. He says some men are shortsighted and don’t think ahead, and so “going to prison or going to hell just doesn’t matter to these men.”
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Do you think it will always be immoral or is it only wrong if it doesn’t work? Or do you think it’s fine to try now? Be sure to vote.

In last week’s poll, we asked you why the visitors don’t reveal themselves, and about one-third of you said it’s because they’re evil and concealing it. It’s a shame the image of the evil alien has become fixed in people?s minds by the media, because we saw very little sign of this in the hundreds of thousands of letters we received from people who have had personal experiences with them. While this doesn’t mean they’re saintly, they may simply have their own agenda (just as we do).
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Residents of several Texas towns recently saw their skies filled with floating strands that looked like spider webs. They were visible in the air for five hours, and left light power poles wrapped with sticky strands and fuzzy wads of goo. “It blew my mind. I have never seen anything like it before,” says Lorenzo DeLacerta of Galveston. A spokesman at the National Weather Service says they had no reports of flying webs.

On October 8, wire services reported that “long, floating spider webs” were “bobbing through the skies of Santa Cruz, California?confusing some community members concerned about biological weapons…”.
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