Many have reservations, but keep these to themselves in what they perceive as a climate hostile to the pursuit of understanding for its own sake and the idea of an inquiring, creative spirit.
Hanson Robotics created the talkative humanoid in the image of Bina Rothblatt, the co-founder of LifeNaut, which is exploring robot-human fusion as a technological path to immortality.
Taking the male middle class characters in the Victorian novels as researching subjects, this thesis aims to find out the relationship between their moral values and their social conditions.
There are countless reasons why women may choose to carry weapons, and Lindsey McCrum's new book, "Chicks With Guns" (Vendome Press, $45) attempts to explore each of them.
They engaged in better inquiry at the next exhibit—asking more questions, performing more experiments and making better interpretations of their results.