Robotics and America's teen birthrate.
By Martha Gill [1] Published 11 April 2012 15:30Robotics and America's teen birthrate.
1. Popular music: Tomfoolery [2](Babbage)
"There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium..." writes Babbage.
2. Why do more people die when the economy gets better? [3] (Washington Post)
The mortality rate rises when the economy improves, writes Suzy Khimm.
3. Robotics: a new twist on an old idea [4] (Babbage)
A new experimental hand can swiftly grasp and raise a load weighing five kilograms, writes Babbage.
4. Another dot.com gold rush is under way [5] (Telegraph)
$1bn to buy a two year old venture that doesn't make a cent - well that's just silly isn't it? Writes Jeremy Warner.
5. America’s teen birth rate is at a new low -- and still 10 times higher than Switzerland’s [6](Washington Post)
Economists are trying to understand why, writes Suzy Khimm.