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The Man Who Faked A Volcano Eruption – One Of The Greatest April Fools’ Hoaxes Ever

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The Forgotten Story of the King of the Amazon

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Why Modern Novels Are Getting Longer (And Why Readers Love It)

The Unbelievable True Story Of The Only Person To Be Hit By A Meteorite

The Dark History of Okunoshima, Japan’s Famous Rabbit Island

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Alan Partridge From The Oasthouse goes full career circle

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Thailand’s most famous ghost still has a shrine in Bangkok

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The Strange History of Funny Surnames Around the World

Melting Roads, Strikes And Escaped Tigers: Disneyland’s Opening Was Disastrous

Birthdays around the world can weird, fun, and unexpected

New Year productivity and a shift in focus

Happy Christmas! Free book: ‘Haunted Thailand: Ghosts and spirits in the Land of Smiles’

The Secret Of Secrets By Dan Brown – Fun, Preposterous, And Exciting But More Of The Same

Inside The Fascinating World Of AI Poker Tournaments – Apparently AI Can Now Bluff

The Studio: Brilliant Cast, Big Laughs And Hollywood Meltdowns

Science Advises Playing Chess. Here’s A Great Way To Begin

Short stories are back – here’s why that’s great for writers

Substack Vs Medium – It Doesn’t Need To Be Either Or…

The Potsdam Giants: How A Prussian King’s Obsession Led To Kidnapping, Torture, And Eugenics

Perth, Rottnest Island, And Ridiculously Cute Quokkas. All You Need To Know

Tuesday, April 07, 2026

Tag: Robot

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Happy robot Christmas and New Year

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Happy Christmas from all of us here at The Word of Ward! I hope you have a good and downright merry one. This year’s Xmas theme is robots.

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Robotic stingray made from rat cells

ward 08/07/2016

A scientist called Kevin Kit Parker went to an aquarium with his daughter and saw a stingray. Thinking, as I have often thought myself, ‘That’s pretty cool, we should have robots built from gold, silicone, and rat heart-cells that behave and act like that.’

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Real life robots preparing for the singularity

ward 19/08/2015

No matter how often science fiction writers keep warning about this sort of thing, we are continuing research into both AI and real life robots.

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