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  • YEM_080329_127_xxw Yemen. Ahmed Ahmed Swaid, a qat merchant, sits on a rooftop in the old city of Sanaa with his typical day’s worth of food. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets (link to book gallery.

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  • VEN.meb.24.xxs Venezuela. The world’s biggest tarantula before being roasted and eaten by Yanomami boys in Sejal village near the Orinoco River. From Man Eating Bugs: The Art & Science of Eating Insects (link to book gallery)

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  • USA_SCI_NUKE_34_xs USA. An “atomic sculpture” made from Los Alamos National Laboratory scraps by Tony Price (1937-2000), of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The artist bought scrap from the nearby Los Alamos National Lab weekly public auctions and built sculptures which convey anti-nuclear themes.

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  • USA_SCI_LIG_001_nxs USA. Summer lightning storm over Tucson, Arizona from Tumamoc Hill with Saguaro cactus and car tail lights.

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  • Usa.rs.422.120.xs USA. Precision robot arms maneuver microsurgical instruments through centimeter-long holes into the heart of a cadaver in a demonstration of minimally invasive surgery at Intuitive Surgical of Mountain View, California. From Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species (link to book gallery)

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  • USA.rs.6.qxxs USA. A prototype for My Real Baby, a sophisticated robot doll at the iRobot research facility in Somerville, MA. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species(link to book gallery)

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  • USA_120430_183.jpg USA. Researcher and inventor Shwetak Patel, holding some home energy monitoring sensors he and his colleagues at the University of Washington designed to measure a home’s electricity and water use in Hayward, California, so that homeowners can better understand where their resources, both financial and environmental, are being spent. 

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  • USA_070903_52_rwx_x USA. Palmaz Vineyards winery fermentation room in a huge cave complex in California’s Napa Valley.

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  • THA.meb.33a.xxs Thailand. Giant water bugs, (Lethocerus indicus) deep-fried in batter, served as an appetizer at a restaurant in Chiang Mai.

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  • SOM_40_xs Somaliland. A teenaged land mine victim recovering in a hospital in Hargeisa after 50,000 died in a civil war in 1991.

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  • SOM_36_xs Somalia. A camel slaughtered for meat by the side of the road in Mogadishu in March, 1992.

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  • KUW_024_xs Kuwait.. Tornados of smoke reflected in an oil lake in the Al Burgan field after the first Bush War, the Gulf War.

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  • JAP.rs.15.qxxs. Japan. Ten years and tens of millions of dollars in the making, the Honda P3 robot strides down its course at the car company's secret research facility on the outskirts of Tokyo. From Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species (link to book gallery)

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  • JAP.rs.4.qxxs Japan. Professor Fumio Hara gets the once-over from a face robot in his lab at the Science University of Tokyo. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species(link to book gallery)

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  • JAP.rs.1.qxxs Japan.A female face robot (second-generation) at Science University of Tokyo, Japan, has shape-memory electric actuators that move beneath the robot's silicon skin to change the face into different facial expressions. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species (link

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  • JAP.meb.106.xxs Japan. Eating a soy-sugar marinated grasshopper (inago) in a small basement restaurant in Tokyo that specializes in cuisine from Nagano Prefecture. From Man Eating Bugs: The Art & Science of Eating Insects (link to book gallery)

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  • IRQ_030401_043_rwx Iraq. During the US invasion, a camel grazing by a burning oil well in the Rumaila Oil Field, one of Iraq’s biggest, with five billion barrels in reserve.

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  • IND_040422_007_x India. Nagas (Hindu ascetics who are followers of Sadhus) congregate to bathe in the Shipra River during the Kumbh Mela festival in Ujjain. Kumbh Mela is one of the largest religious festivals on earth.

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  • IDO.meb.29A.cxxs Indonesia (Papua). Amuloke Walelo and her husband prepare the day’s vegetables with the blood-red juice of the buah merah fruit in their village in the Baliem Valley.

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  • GUM_09_xs Guam. A photo illustration of many parent’s worst fear on this South Pacific island: the invasive species brown tree snake in bed with a very young sleeping child. For this photo, an expert researcher and handler of brown tree snakes placed a refrigerated snake that had been chilled to restrict its movement on the bed with the sleeping child and monitored its movement. As it warmed up, the snake sensed the baby’s breath and started to move toward it.

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  • Ger.rs.100.xs Germany. Metal posts placed precisely using a robotic system provide a stable anchor for magnetic attachment of this artificial body part at the Virchow Campus Clinic, Humboldt University, Berlin.

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  • ECU04.0001.xxf1rw Ecuador. The Ayme family in their kitchen house with one week’s worth of food in a village in the central Andes. From Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (link to book gallery)

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  • CZE_33_xs Czech Republic. Spontaneous dancing in Prague’s old town square right after the Velvet Revolution

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  • CHI.meb.51.xxs China. Water beetles marinated in ginger and soy sauce with a carrot garnish against a background of swimming water beetles in Guangzhou Province.

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  • BodyWorlds_Running.jpg UK. A plastinated running man in a London exhibit of human cadavers called Bodyworlds by German anatomist Gunter von Hagens who invented the technique for preserving biological tissue in a process called ‘plastination’.

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  • BHU.mw.01.xxs Bhutan. Nalim and Namgay, subsistence farmers, with their extended family and all of their possessions outside their 3-story rammed-earth house in the hillside village of Shingkhey. From Material World: A Global Family Portrait (link to book gallery)

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