We were certain that this was just a "pie in the sky" concept, but apparently engineers are hard at work designing those futuristic space elevators that promise to eventually whisk cargo and humans to the final frontier at a fraction of the cost of rocket-based delivery systems.

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Since past work has shown that humans will forgo money just for the opportunity to look at sexy pictures, the team suspected that the participants might similarly favor talking about themselves over earning some cash.

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Lucky and Flo, the two danger-loving police dogs whose exploits as international crime fighters are well know to readers of this site, have just become the first non-humans to be awarded Malaysia's outstanding service award for their tireless work in trotting around and sitting down at the first whiff of plastic.

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