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You Know You Want One: Personal Robots Are Coming, But Not Ready For You Yet
A Silicon Valley company hopes to make a Jetsons-style robot a reality in your home. But the personal robotics industry has a few hurdles to jump before you can have your own robotic maid.(Image...
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Chef Tempts Tourists Back To Tijuana By Focusing On The Food
Chef Javier Plascencia focuses on long-ignored local foods in his dishes. He's credited for revitalizing Baja cuisine and is trying to remake Tijuana into a restaurant town, one local plate at a...
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Failure: The F-Word Silicon Valley Loves And Hates
For every revolutionary idea in Silicon Valley, there are a lot more flops. But many tech entrepreneurs and investors say failure is accepted, even welcomed, as a guide for future success.(Image...
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Seattle Forager Inspires Others To Learn About Wild, Forgotten Foods
A walk in the woods isn't that different from a walk through the produce section of the supermarket for Langdon Cook, an influential Seattle forager, blogger, and home cook. He's dedicated to...
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He'll Retune Your Living Room
Psychoacoustic engineers like Chris Kyriakakis work to perfect the way music sounds in imperfect environments as diverse as symphony halls, your living room and your ears.
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A Trailblazing Black Architect Who Helped Shape L.A.
When Paul Williams decided to become an architect, people told him no white clients would work with an African-American. But he persevered, eventually designing thousands of buildings, including the...
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Digital Domain Grapples With Fur, Feathers
The Legend of Tembo.'/>A Venice, Calif., special-effects house has cornered the market on some of the most difficult FX — from rain to the human likeness. NPR's Melissa Block visits Digital Domain's...
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Breakthrough Pain Treatment Or Snake Oil? You Decide.
A painkiller cream is based on sound scientific reasoning, but hasn't undergone tests to prove it works. You can buy it on the Internet, but should you?
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