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Niteshift: June 9, 2009

This week: Movie memories and the Circus of Phones.

Parasite may increase your odds of an auto accident

If you lack a certain protein on your blood cells and are infected with a common parasite, you may be more likely to crash your car.

Toxoplasma, or toxo for short, starts its life cycle in rodents.

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Robot farmhands prepare to invade the countryside

From ploughs to seed drills to tractors, evolving technology has brought about radical changes to agriculture over the years. Now the sector is poised for another shift as robotic farmhands gear up to make agriculture greener and more efficient.

Three things now make mobile agricultural robots a real possibility in the near future, says Tony Stentz, an engineer at Carnegie Mellon University’s robotics institute.

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Niteshift: June 2, 2009

This Week: Anacondas, Robot Farmhands, Seeds of Hope and the Loss of Innocence. Plus: Reviews of “Up”, “Land of the Lost” & “Drag Me To Hell”.

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