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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    Not scared of flu yet? Online exhibit may help

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    Fri May 1, 2009 8:55am EDT
    Policemen in Seattle wearing masks made by the Red Cross, during the influenza epidemic, December 1918. REUTERS/National Archives

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Staying inside to avoid the flu? Or perhaps you are not convinced yet that a pandemic would be scary. Either way, the U.S. National Archives has a solution.

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    It has posted an online exhibit about the 1918 pandemic of influenza, the "Spanish flu" that took the lives of anywhere between 40 million and 100 million people, depending on the estimate.

    "In this room were all stages of Indians lying dead or dying or advancing well to the conditions which followed the Flu," Dr. D.A. Richardson writes in one letter to the Bureau of Indian Affairs describing the conditions at a reservation in New Mexico in October 1918.

    A nurse from Kansas, "As many as 90 people die here every day with the 'Flu'."

    So far the H1N1 swine flu virus has not been anywhere near as deadly, with 176 suspected deaths in Mexico, one in the United States, and mostly mild cases in nine other countries.

    The exhibit, here also has photographs of policemen, typists and nurses with masks and a trolley operator keeping unmasked passengers from boarding.

    (Reporting by Maggie Fox; editing by Mohammad Zargham)
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