2 November 2010: Morning By The Morning News — 02 Nov 2010 Elections aren't decided based on candidates' achievements or promises, but on where they fall in a country's economic cycle. Find your polling place. Across the nation this week, local TV stations mined profit in attack ads--only viewers, local businesses lost out. Helpful: What the fuck has Obama done so far? The latest from U.S.C.'s Institute for Creative Technologies includes military training tools and virtual patients. With no approval coming for a manned lunar mission, NASA proposes robonauts at a fraction of the price, ready in 1,000 days. Scientists build a better robotic hand: instead of fingers, a rubber sack filled with coffee grounds. Today's cockroaches are not only practically indestructible, they've adapted to be the biggest ever. Related: Michael Barrish explains why the cockroach is the ultimate archival container. Psychologist develops evolutionary explanation of why we're conservative or liberal. Study shows verbal abuse leads to an underdeveloped brain. Brain scan reveals neurological giveaways for different bluffing styles. See also: Kang's study of poker's pains. Op: The problems of the fashion industry can be traced back to everyone trying to copy everyone else. Chilean miner who ran up to six miles every day underground, arrives this week for the New York marathon.
