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Cool and Crap Awards of the Week

At least two things happened in the world of science and science fiction last week. One was cool, the other was crap.

Coolest excuse to talk about human-robot love, or bot-on-bot love, without seeming like a total chromosexual pervert. The release of Wall-E, a robot love story, has stirred up everybody's memories of great robot love stories past. Now, for a brief time, you can talk about robo-love without coming across as a futuristic kinkster like David Levy, that guy who wrote the book on how we'll all be banging and marrying robots in a decade. Wired's Jenna Wortham even did a feature on the best robot love stories, though sadly she left out two of our favorites: Heartbeeps (accounting bot Andy Kaufman falls in love with hostess bot Bernadette Peters in the only movie Kaufman ever starred in), and Making Mr. Right (1980s-era John Malkovich as a nerdy space robot who romances a cute PR lady). Click through for the crap.

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The Food Riots Are Getting Worse

Prices for cornmeal and rice have doubled in Somalia since January, and on Monday food riots wracked the Somalian city of Mogadishu. Thousands of people protested the insane prices for staple foods, and eventually police shot and killed two protesters. Earlier this year, food riots broke out in the African nation of Senegal as well. What's causing these conditions, which sound like the precursors to the apocalyptic food-shortage flick Soylent Green? More »