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• As most of you probably know, Heath was filming Terry Gilliam's "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus" at the time of his death. Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell stepped in to complete Heath's role, playing different versions of his character "Tim." When the three actors learned that Ledger's will had not been updated to include his daughter, the generous trio decided to donate all the money they earned from the film to little Matilda!It's good to know that there are a few nice guys in Hollywood.

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College presidents seek debate on drinking age - Yahoo! News

• College presidents from about 100 of the nation's best-known universities, including Duke, Dartmouth and Ohio State, are calling on lawmakers to consider lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18, saying current laws actually encourage dangerous binge drinking on campus.
  


• The movement called the Amethyst Initiative began quietly recruiting presidents more than a year ago to provoke national debate about the drinking age.
  "This is a law that is routinely evaded," said John McCardell, former president of Middlebury College in Vermont who started the organization. "It is a law that the people at whom it is directed believe is unjust and unfair and discriminatory."
  Other prominent schools in the group include Syracuse, Tufts, Colgate, Kenyon and Morehouse.


• He said college students will drink no matter what, but do so more dangerously when it's illegal.
  The statement the presidents have signed avoids calling explicitly for a younger drinking age. Rather, it seeks "an informed and dispassionate debate" over the issue and the federal highway law that made 21 the de facto national drinking age by denying money to any state that bucks the trend.
  But the statement makes clear the signers think the current law isn't working, citing a "culture of dangerous, clandestine binge-drinking," and noting that while adults under 21 can vote and enlist in the military, they "are told they are not mature enough to have a beer." Furthermore, "by choosing to use fake IDs, students make ethical compromises that erode respect for the law."

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Gordon Robot Has Cultured Rat Neuron Brain: Science Fiction in the News

• Cultured rat neurons placed on a multi-electrode array (MEA) form the brain of Gordon the robot. This brain is housed in a special temperature-controlled unit separate from the robot; Bluetooth is used for control signals.
  
  The rat neurons life in a nutrient-rich medium kept at a constant temperature; they organize themselves within several weeks, organizing themselves based on electrical impulses received from sensors in the wheels.
  
  
  
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  "The purpose is to figure out how memories are actually stored in a biological brain," said Kevin Warwick, a professor at the University of Reading and one of the robot's principle architects.
  
  "The purpose is to figure out how memories are actually stored in a biological brain," said Kevin Warwick, a professor at the University of Reading and one of the robot's principle architects.
  
  "If we can understand some of the basics of what is going on in our little model brain, it could have enormous medical spinoffs."
  
  
  
  
  
  (Gordon, a rat neuron-controlled robot video.)
  
  
  Incredibly, different MEA-based brains show different personalities; Gordon has several 'spare' brains that can be plugged in.
  
  
  "It's quite funny -- you get differences between the brains," said Warwick. "This one is a bit boisterous and active, while we know another is not going to do what we want it to."
  
  
  Science fiction readers are thoroughly familiar with this idea; laminated mouse brains are used to pilot interstellar ships in the 1962 story Think Blue, Count Two by Cordwainer Smith.
  
  See also Peter Watts' head cheese from his 1999 novel Starfish, which is a pretty exact match for Gordon's brain.
  
  From Breitbart; thanks to Moira for prodding me into doing this story. Scroll down for more stories in the same category. (Story submitted 8/15/2008)

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  Susan Sarandon's actress daughter Eva Amurri has been named the latest United Nations celebrity Goodwill Ambassador, overseeing fundraising for "vulnerable children" living in HIV/AIDS-affected communities in Africa. Saved star Amurri, 22, recently traveled to Namibia to visit children attending schools funded by the United Nation's HERO initiative. During her visit, the actress volunteered at the Hainyeko Primary School and Onamatadiva Kindergarten in the Ohangwena region of Namibia. There she worked alongside local partners, community members and the United Nations Association's HERO Youth Ambassadors. Amurri helped paint student dorms and participated in an after-school camp, where she taught "arts, crafts and recreational activities." She also hosted a celebration with the San community - considered the world's oldest cultural group. Amurri says, "Being in Namibia this past July and working with the kids has been such an enlightening experience and I'm looking forward to returning in the future."

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McClatchy Washington Bureau | 08/02/2008 | Sixty years later, a civil rights protest still resonates

• Sixty years later, a civil rights protest still resonates


• Joan S. Williams never talked about the changes that resulted after she sat at Dockum Drugs store's segregated lunch counter in Wichita, Kans. in July 1958. But in those 60 minutes of her life, she helped make history.
  
  She and other Wichita Branch NAACP youth group members took turns keeping the stools at the segregated Dockum lunch counter filled, and after three weeks, the drug store's owners agreed to desegregate that lunch counter, the counters at its eight other Wichita locations and Rexall Drug Store counters across Kansas.To recognize the sit-in's 50th anniversary, national NAACP leaders are planning to visit Wichita on Aug. 9 to march in honor of the event.

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