This Week in the Future, October 19-23, 2009
China engineers the world's smartest rat? The mayor of Moscow wants to control the weather? Skiing robots?. What a week. Look at the rat there, working the controls to keep Moscow's winter at bay. Or is he smart enough to realize geo-engineering is crazy, so he's just killing time watching videos of skiing robots on the Internet? Smart, rat. Maybe too smart. Some stories that caught our eye: Isolating a neural pathway that regulates the speed of memory processing, scientists from Georgia and China have create a rat smarter than all before it We watched a skiing robot that can slalom autonomously--as long as it's on the bunny hills Mexico City has plans for an innovative, efficient taxi that may concept that may actually see the light of day And finally, the mayor of Moscow plans on enlisting geoengineering to fight a rough winter Hope everyone...
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