Cristina and Maya are fascinated by DARPA’s initiative to farm synthetic blood, which has been achieved by a biotech company in Ohio, as well as research being done by robotics students around the world trying to make teachers out of robots (brilliant!). The girls puzzle over Facebook activation numbers for the past month falling of a cliff from 7.8M to just 320,000 new accounts in the US for the month! Google Games plus Zynga, and Reddit Gold also make the list of topics the ladies break down in this episode. [Oh, and pardon the occasional echo. Technical difficulties... 
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Students, Meet Your New Teacher, Mr. Robot
Read More: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/science/11robots.htm
Darpa’s Lab-Grown Blood Starts Pumping
Read More: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/darpas-blood-makers-start-pumping/
Facebook’s June 2010 US Traffic by Age and Sex: Users Aged 18-44 Take a Growth Break
Teens Experiencing Facebook Fatigue
Read More: http://mashable.com/2010/06/30/teens-social-networks-study/
Google Secretly Invested $100+ Million In Zynga, Preparing To Launch Google Games
Reddit Asks Users For Money To Hire People Because “Revenue Isn’t Great”
Read More: http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/10/reddit-gold/
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