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  • Gold painted sculpture of a Trabant (E. German made car) with legs. Prague, Czech Republic.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • Filipe Adams, an Iraqi war vet at home with his father, who is helping him get dressed, in Los Angeles, California. (Felipe Adams is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Felipe was shot in Baghdad while serving his second tour of duty in September of 2006 and his spine was shattered leaving him unable to feel his lower body, although he is still wracked with periodic pain. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Filipe Adams, an Iraqi war vet at home with his father, who is helping him get dressed, in Los Angeles, California. (Felipe Adams is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Felipe was shot in Baghdad while serving his second tour of duty in September of 2006 and his spine was shattered leaving him unable to feel his lower body, although he is still wracked with periodic pain. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • Uwe George and Venita Kaleps from German GEO visiting Menzel and D'Aluisio at their home in Napa Valley, CA
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  • Family get-together at rented house on the shore at York Cliffs, Maine in July. Menzel/D'Aluisio. Beach at Ogunquit, ME. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • Emma D'Aluisio, 20, at Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA with her aunt, Faith D'Aluisio. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco, CA annual event.
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  • Tierra Santa religious theme park, Buenos Aires
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  • Massage in Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Fresh fish offloaded onto the sand beach at Campeche, Mexico.
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  • The "Winged Man," a piece from Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds exhibit. Body Worlds is a traveling exhibit of real, plastinated human bodies and body parts. Von Hagens invented plastination as a way to preserve body tissue and is the creator of the Body Worlds exhibits.  [2002]
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  • Art restorer Vyacheslav Grankovskiy in his studio in Schlisselburg, outside St. Petersburg, Russia. (Vyacheslav Grankovskiy is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Millie Mitra and her yoga teacher at her home in Benson Town, Bangalore, India. (Millie Mitra is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Millie Mitra, a vegan, has a thirst for alternative medicine and homeopathic healing, as well as a deep interest in how her diet affects her body. She has practiced Shivambu (sometimes spelled Sivambu), which is the drinking of one's own first morning urine (200 cc in her practice) as a curative and preventative measure, for over 15 years. Millie applies urine to her skin as well, for the same reasons. Her husband Abhik has tried Shivambu and she helped her children to practice it when they were young, but currently only Millie practices urine therapy.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • Poultry. Turkey slaughterhouse in Lincoln, California, USA.
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  • Evan Menzel in Napa, CA MODEL RELEASED
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  • James Conaway, author of two books on the Napa Valley,  talking on his cellphone in his Napa Valley, California, office on the Menzel property with two guard dogs at his sides.
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  • Tierra Santa religious theme park, Buenos Aires
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  • Massage, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Woman walking under a strip club billboard in Madrid, Spain.
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  • Art restorer Vyacheslav ?Slava? Grankovskiy in his studio workshop behind his home in Shlisselburg, near St. Petersburg, Russia, with his typical day's worth of food. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of his day's worth of food in the month of October was 3900 kcals. He is 53 years of age; 6 feet, 2 inches tall; and 184 pounds. The son of a Soviet-era collective farm leader, he was raised near the Black Sea and originally worked as an artist and engineer. Over the years, he's learned a few dozen crafts, which eventually enabled him to restore a vast number of objects, build his own house, and be his own boss. His travel adventures have included crossing the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan, where he spent time with a blind hermit and dined with a Mongol woman who hunted bears and treated him to groundhog soup. His favorite drink: Cognac. Does he ever drink soda? ?No, I use cola in restoration to remove rust, not to drink,? he says. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Family get-together at rented house on the shore at York Cliffs, Maine in July. Menzel/D'Aluisio. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Hot springs resort in Teitung, Taiwan.
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  • An art installation of giant bugs on the desert floor at Burning Man. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
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  • Scorpion lit with a black light in Thousand Palms (desert) of California.
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  • Napa Town and Country Fair. Napa, California, USA. Napa Valley.
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  • Massage in Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Applications of virtual reality systems in medical education. Here, Scott Delp and Scott Fisher are using a system developed at NASA's Ames Research Centre in Menlo Park, California, to study the anatomy of the human leg. They both wear a headset equipped with 3-D video displays to view the computer-generated graphical images - one is shown between the two doctors. Physical exploration of the leg anatomy is afforded by using the data glove, a black rubber glove with woven optical fiber sensors, which relays data on their physical hand movements back to the computer. Model Released (1990)
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  • A 50 year old Somalian woman being examined in Hargeisa, Somaliland, by Dr. Chris Giannou of the International Committee of the Red Cross, after losing her leg to a landmine while herding her cattle. Somaliland is the breakaway republic in northern Somalia that declared independence in 1991 after 50,000 died in civil war. March 1992.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio with broken leg, Napa Valley, CA
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  • A young Somalian girl recovering the hospital after losing her leg to a landmine in Hargeisa, capital of Somaliland, an unrecognized breakaway Republic of Somalia. The three leading causes of death in Somalia are gastro-enteritis, T.B. and trauma, mostly from land mines, gun shots, and car accidents. March 1992.
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  • Teenaged land mine victim recovering in a hospital in Hargeisa, Somaliland?the breakaway republic in northern Somalia that declared independence in 1991 after 50,000 died in civil war. The three leading causes of death in Somalia are gastro-enteritis, T.B. and trauma, mostly from land mines, gun shots, and car accidents. March 1992.
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  • Timber Cove, N. California house on rocky coast with friends. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Napa Town and Country Fair. August. Napa Valley, CA
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  • Work out at the beach at sunset in Naples, Florida, USA. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Thousand Buddha Caves on the Mekong River, Luang Prabang, Laos..
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  • Doctors working on an injured man, a gunshot victim, at Keysany Hospital, ICRC, in Mogadishu, the war torn capital of Somalia. March 1992.
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  • A teenage shelling victim in a "Villa Hospital", a private home turned into a hospital in the north sector (Ali Mahdi controlled sector), in Mogadishu, war-torn capital of Somalia where 30,000 died between November 1991 and March 1992. March 1992.
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  • Napa Town and Country Fair. August. Napa Valley, CA
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  • Keogh Hot Springs on Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Dawn from the top of the Thabelkhmauk Pagoda, Bagan, Myanmar, (Burma). The Bagan (also spelled Pagan) Plain on the banks of Irrawaddy River in central Myanmar, is the largest area of Buddhist temples, pagodas, stupas and ruins in the world. More than 2,200 remain today, many dating from the 11th and 12 centuries.
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  • Playboy lingerie shoot. Hollywood, California. Shot for the book project: A Day in a Life of Hollywood. MODEL RELEASED. USA.
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  • Shwedagon Pagoda at dawn in Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma). The gold-leafed Buddhist Pagoda and surrounding shrines is the most important religious site in the country.
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  • Shwedagon Pagoda at dawn in Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma). The gold-leafed Buddhist Pagoda and surrounding shrines is the most important religious site in the country.
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  • Bupaya Pagoada, Bagan, Myanmar, (also known as Burma). The Bagan (also spelled Pagan) Plain on the banks of Irrawaddy River in central Myanmar, is the largest area of Buddhist temples, pagodas, stupas and ruins in the world. More than 2,200 remain today, many dating from the 11th and 12 centuries.
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  • Dawn from the top of the Thabelkhmauk Pagoada, Bagan, Myanmar, (also known as Burma). The Bagan (also spelled Pagan) Plain on the banks of Irrawaddy River in central Myanmar, is the largest area of Buddhist temples, pagodas, stupas and ruins in the world. More than 2,200 remain today, many dating from the 11th and 12 centuries.
    BUR_120203_174_x.jpg
  • Dawn from the top of the Thabelkhmauk Pagoada, Bagan, Myanmar, (also known as Burma). The Bagan (also spelled Pagan) Plain on the banks of Irrawaddy River in central Myanmar, is the largest area of Buddhist temples, pagodas, stupas and ruins in the world. More than 2,200 remain today, many dating from the 11th and 12 centuries.
    BUR_120203_173_x.jpg
  • Dawn from the top of the Thabelkhmauk Pagoada, Bagan, Myanmar, (also known as Burma). The Bagan (also spelled Pagan) Plain on the banks of Irrawaddy River in central Myanmar, is the largest area of Buddhist temples, pagodas, stupas and ruins in the world. More than 2,200 remain today, many dating from the 11th and 12 centuries.
    BUR_120203_172_x.jpg
  • Dawn from the top of the Thabelkhmauk Pagoada, Bagan, Myanmar, (also known as Burma). The Bagan (also spelled Pagan) Plain on the banks of Irrawaddy River in central Myanmar, is the largest area of Buddhist temples, pagodas, stupas and ruins in the world. More than 2,200 remain today, many dating from the 11th and 12 centuries.
    BUR_120203_170_x.jpg
  • Dawn from the top of the Thabelkhmauk Pagoada, Bagan, Myanmar, (also known as Burma). The Bagan (also spelled Pagan) Plain on the banks of Irrawaddy River in central Myanmar, is the largest area of Buddhist temples, pagodas, stupas and ruins in the world. More than 2,200 remain today, many dating from the 11th and 12 centuries.
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  • Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma). The gold-leafed Buddhist Pagoda and surrounding shrines is the most important religious site in the country.
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  • Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma). The gold-leafed Buddhist Pagoda and surrounding shrines is the most important religious site in the country..
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  • Relaxing and meditating in the shade of a sandstone arch.  Yoga/Meditation classes with Global Fitness Adventures Health Spa, Sedona, Arizona..
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  • Playboy lingerie shoot. Hollywood, California. Shot for the book project: A Day in a Life of Hollywood. MODEL RELEASED. USA.
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  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • Botataung Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma).
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  • Dawn from the top of the Thabelkhmauk Pagoada, Bagan, Myanmar, (also known as Burma). The Bagan (also spelled Pagan) Plain on the banks of Irrawaddy River in central Myanmar, is the largest area of Buddhist temples, pagodas, stupas and ruins in the world. More than 2,200 remain today, many dating from the 11th and 12 centuries.
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  • Yoga/Meditation classes with Global Fitness Adventures Health Spa, Sedona, Arizona..
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  • CaToga arthouse
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  • Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma). The gold-leafed Buddhist Pagoda and surrounding shrines is the most important religious site in the country.
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  • Hunched over a treadmill designed for arthropods, biologist Robert Full tests an Arizona centipede in his laboratory at UC Berkeley (California). Even though the centipede has forty legs, it runs much like an ordinary six-legged insect. Just as insects move on two alternating sets of three legs (two on one side, one on the other), the centipede gathers its legs into three alternating groups, with the tips of the feet in each group bunched together. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 94 top.
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  • Leaning back in his chair, graduate student Jerry Pratt controls Spring Flamingo, a walking robot at the MIT Leg Lab in Cambridge, MA. A branch of MIT's renowned Artificial Intelligence Lab, the Leg Lab is home to researchers whose subjects run the gamut from improved artificial legs to robots that help scientists understand the complex dynamics of the human stride. Tethered to a slightly counterweighted boom that rotates around a pivot, the robot always walks in a circle in the lab.From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 8-9..
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  • Robonaut, with an acrylic head, holds a drill with socket attachment at the Johnson Space Center, Houston. That NASA's teleoperated humanoid-type robot, called Robonaut, has no legs is by design, because in space, says project leader Robert Ambrose, an astronaut's legs can be a big impediment to fulfilling the mission of a spacewalk. The latest version of Robonaut has two arms, a Kevlar and nylon suit, updated stereo eyes, and is getting heat sensing capability. Possibly the most significant change is the move from total teleoperation to some level of autonomy.
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  • Rather than building an exact metal and plastic copy of an insect's bones and muscles, Stanford engineer Mark Cutkosky and his students Sean Bailey and Jorge Cham (Cutkosky at left) stripped a cockroach to its essence. The Mini-sprawl has padded feet, with springy couplings and pneumatic pistons that yank the legs up and down. Like a real roach, the robot skitters forward as each set of legs touches the surface. The next step: creating a robot that can turn and vary its speed. Stanford, CA. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 99 top.
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  • Chaurino Perez Andrate, 17, offers a plate-sized sample of roasted Theraphosa leblondi, the world's largest tarantula in his village of Sejal, Venezuela. Chaurino stuns the leblondi by whacking it with a stick, gathers its legs, and lowers it onto the fire. The spider makes a final hiss as its insides heat up and it shoots out a yard-long spurt of hot juice. After it is roasted for about seven minutes, its charred hairs are rubbed away and the legs pulled off. When we crack them open, there's white meat.(Man Eating Bugs page 175)
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  • Camels hop around on just three legs at the Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo, Egypt, where camel broker Saleh Abdul Fadlallah works. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Domesticated since 2000 BC, camels are used less as beasts of burden now, and more for their meat. Because they can run up to 40 miles per hour for short bursts, dealers hobble one leg when they are unloaded at the Birqash market. They are marked with painted symbols to make them easier for buyers and sellers to identify. Both brokers and camels have a reputation for being surly, and the brokers don't hesitate to flail the camels with their long sticks to maintain their dominance.
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  • Camels from Somalia stiffly walk down the ramp from a truck at the Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo, Egypt, where camel broker Saleh Abdul Fadlallah works. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Domesticated since 2000 BC, camels are used less as beasts of burden now, and more for their meat. Because they can run up to 40 miles per hour for short bursts, dealers hobble one leg when they are unloaded at the Birqash market, forcing them to hop around on just three legs. They are marked with painted symbols to make them easier for buyers and sellers to identify. Both brokers and camels have a reputation for being surly, and the brokers don't hesitate to flail the camels with their long sticks to maintain their dominance.
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  • A Theraphosa leblondi, the world's largest tarantula, caught by Yanomami youths, roasting on the embers of a fire. Chaurino stuns the leblondi by whacking it with a stick, gathers its legs, and lowers it onto the fire. The spider makes a final hiss as its insides heat up and it shoots out a yard-long spurt of hot juice. Sejal, Venezuela.(Man Eating Bugs page 174 Top)
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  • Faith D'Aluisio, one of the authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, weighs the food items consumed by Saleh Abdul Fadlallah at Birqash Camel Market, outside Cairo, Egypt. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Contrary to popular belief, camels’ humps don’t store water; they are a reservoir of fatty tissue that minimizes heat-trapping insulation in the rest of their bodies; the dromedary, or Arabian camel, has a single hump, while Asian camels have two. Camels are well suited for desert climes: their long legs and huge, two-toed feet with leathery pads enable them to walk easily in sand, and their eyelids, nostrils, and thick coat protect them from heat and blowing sand. These characteristics, along with their ability to eat thorny vegetation and derive sufficient moisture from tough green herbage, allow camels to survive in very inhospitable terrain.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio, one of the authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets surrounded by camels at the  Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo, Egypt. Contrary to popular belief, camels’ humps don’t store water; they are a reservoir of fatty tissue that minimizes the need for heat-trapping insulation in the rest of their bodies; the dromedary, or Arabian camel, has a single hump, while Asian camels have two. Camels are well suited for desert climes: their long legs and huge, two-toed feet with leathery pads enable them to walk easily in sand, and their eyelids, nostrils, and thick coat protect them from heat and blowing sand. These characteristics, along with their ability to eat thorny vegetation and derive sufficient moisture from tough green herbage, allow camels to survive in very inhospitable terrain.
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  • Little Man's legs and feet, created at AVG, an animatronics company founded by Alvaro Villa in Los Angeles, California. This animatronic figure wears a baseball cap and sneakers. Little Man "represents" the company at trade shows, as well as tirelessly delivers a humorous prerecorded spiel that is synchronized with a video on a screen behind it.
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  • USA.rs.312.qxxs.A surprising amount of the lab's work at Robert Full's Poly-PEDAL laboratory at UC Berkeley (California) focuses on cockroaches, because they are exceptionally mobile?for their size, the fastest species on the planet. The fastest roach is a big species known, melodramatically, as the death-head roach, seen here in its "run" at the Poly-PEDAL lab. As the run demonstrates, cockroaches do not have to have secure footing to move quickly. Instead, they use two alternating sets of legs (two on one side, one on the other) as springs, almost bouncing themselves forward. Remarkably, the insect brain doesn't have to see its feet or even be aware of them. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 96.
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  • As Mark Tilden's Spyder 1.0 approaches like a tiny but menacing arachnid, its circuits try to optimize actions, walking in this case, with minimal energy. Perturbed by the environment, its patented "nervous net" seeks the minimum state, its legs moving almost randomly until it succeeds. In 1990, Spyder 1.0 was the first walking robot to use Tilden's nervous net control system. When Tilden first achieved such complex behavior from such minimal components, the results astonished some roboticists. Los Alamos, NM. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 118-119.
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  • Although the Titan VII climbing robot has only four legs, its designers drew their inspiration from spiders, which have exceptional climbing skills. Built by Hideyuki Tsukagoshi, a research associate in the Tokyo laboratory of Shigeo Hirose, the machine is intended to be a mobile construction platform on steep slopes. Japan. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 192.
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  • Hanging from a network of cables, Brachiator III quickly swings from "branch" to "branch" like the long-armed ape it was modeled on. (Brachiator refers to "brachiation," moving by swinging from one hold to another.) The robot, which was built in the laboratory of Toshio Fukuda at Nagoya University (Japan), has no sensors on its body. Instead, it tracks its own movements with video cameras located about four meters away. Brightly colored balls attached to the machine help the cameras discern its position. Brachiator's computer, which is adjacent to the camera, takes in the video images of the machine's progress and uses this data to send instructions to the machine's arms and legs. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 87.
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  • Cow hooves and legs hanging outside a butcher shop in Cairo, Egypt. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Death is part of the fabric of life for Hindus and like much of Indian society, takes place in open view. In the early morning men and women wash clothes in the river, slapping dhoti, saris, and other pieces of clothing against rocks and cement slabs as others tend to the bodies burning on the shore at Harishchandra Ghat. A man uses a long bamboo pole that once was part of the litter fashioned to carry a body to the cremation grounds at Harishchandra Ghat to flip the unburned legs and arms back into the fire. He uses the pole to smash the skulls open as well so that it burns more easily. The Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganges River.
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  • Ricki the chimp clings to Pam Rosaire-Zoppe's legs as he enjoys a ride on her scooter at the Bailick Ranch and Discovery Zoo in Catskill, NY. Ricky the chimp is owned by Pam Rosarie-Zoppe and Roger Zoppe. (Ricki the chimp is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A butchered cow's legs are displayed on the street in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bangladesh has  has the world's fourth largest Muslim population, and during the three days of Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice, Dhaka's streets run red with the blood of thousands of butchered cattle. The feast comes at the conclusion of the Hajj, the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. In both the Koran and the Bible, God told the prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his son to show supreme obedience to Allah (God). At the last moment, his son was spared and Ibrahim was allowed to sacrifice a ram instead. In Dhaka, as in the rest of the Muslim world, Eid al- Adha commemorates this tale, and the meat of the sacrificed animals is distributed to relatives, friends, and the poor.
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  • Camel broker Saleh Abdul Fadlallah with his day's worth of food at the Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo, Egypt. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a typical day in the month of April was 3200 kcals.  He is 40 years of age; 5 feet, 8 inches tall; and 165 pounds. Contrary to popular belief, camels' humps don't store water; they are a reservoir of fatty tissue that minimizes the need for heat-trapping insulation in the rest of their bodies; the dromedary, or Arabian camel, has a single hump, while Asian camels have two. Camels are well suited for desert climes: their long legs and huge, two-toed feet with leathery pads enable them to walk easily in sand, and their eyelids, nostrils, and thick coat protect them from heat and blowing sand. These characteristics, along with their ability to eat thorny vegetation and derive sufficient moisture from tough green herbage, allow camels to survive in very inhospitable terrain. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • University of California Berkeley biologist Robert Full analyzes centipede motion by observing the insect's movement across a glass plate covered with "photoelastic" gelatin. On either side of the gel are thin polarizing filters that together block all light coming through the glass. When the centipede's feet contact the gel, they temporarily deform it, altering the way light goes through it and allowing some to pass through the filters. In the test above, one group of legs works on one side of the animal's midsection while two other groups work near its head and tail. UC Berkeley (California. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 94 bottom..
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  • Although the Titan VII climbing robot has only four legs, its designers drew their inspiration from spiders, which have exceptional climbing skills. Built by Hideyuki Tsukagoshi, a research associate in the Tokyo laboratory of Shigeo Hirose, the machine is intended to be a mobile construction platform on steep slopes. Japan. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 193.
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  • Dan Paluska, the mechanical engineering grad student leading M2's hardware design and construction, is seen here in a double exposure that melds him with his machine for a photo illustration. The lower torso and extremity robot, called M2, took its first tentative steps last year here in the basement of MIT's Leg Laboratory. Established in 1980 by Marc Raibert, the Leg Lab was home to the first robots that mimicked human walking; swinging like an inverted pendulum from step to step. Similar to image published on the cover of Wired Magazine, September 2000. MIT Leg Lab, Cambridge, MA.
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  • Dan Paluska, the mechanical engineering grad student leading M2's hardware design and construction, is seen here in a double exposure that melds him with his machine for a photo illustration. The lower torso and extremity robot, called M2, took its first tentative steps last year here in the basement of MIT's Leg Laboratory. Established in 1980 by Marc Raibert, the Leg Lab was home to the first robots that mimicked human walking; swinging like an inverted pendulum from step to step. Similar to image published on the cover of Wired Magazine, September 2000. MIT Leg Lab, Cambridge, MA.
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  • Dan Paluska, the mechanical engineering grad student leading M2's hardware design and construction, is seen here in a double exposure that melds him with his machine for a photo illustration. The lower torso and extremity robot, called M2, took its first tentative steps last year here in the basement of MIT's Leg Laboratory. Established in 1980 by Marc Raibert, the Leg Lab was home to the first robots that mimicked human walking; swinging like an inverted pendulum from step to step. Similar to image published on the cover of Wired Magazine, September 2000. MIT Leg Lab, Cambridge, MA.
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  • Dan Paluska, the mechanical engineering grad student leading M2's hardware design and construction, is seen here in a double exposure that melds him with his machine for a photo illustration. The lower torso and extremity robot, called M2, took its first tentative steps last year here in the basement of MIT's Leg Laboratory. Established in 1980 by Marc Raibert, the Leg Lab was home to the first robots that mimicked human walking; swinging like an inverted pendulum from step to step. Similar to image published on the cover of Wired Magazine, September 2000. MIT Leg Lab, Cambridge, MA.
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  • Professor Robert J. Full's Poly-PEDAL Lab at UC Berkeley has been working with roboticists for years, supplying them with information on small animal locomotion that is used to conStruct innovative robots. Recently, the Lab has been working with the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), testing and evaluating artificial muscles. Dr. Kenneth Meijer (from Holland) compares and measures a Stanford Artificial Muscle with a natural one from the leg of the Death Head Cockroach. After cooling the cockroach and exposing leg extensor muscle number 179, an electrode is suctioned into the muscle to simulate the nerve-to-muscle connection. Published in Stern Magazine, February 11th, 2000.
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  • In a Kafkaesque scenario, an anesthetized female cockroach is pinned on its back in a petri dish coated with a rubbery goo. Guiding himself by peering through a microscope, James T. Watson, a staff researcher in Roy Ritzmann's lab at Case Western Reserve University, inserts the wires from thin pink electrodes into one of the insect's leg muscles. The electrodes will be used to take measurements of the insect's leg muscles when it moves-information that will be used by roboticist Roger Quinn in his roach-robot projects. Cleveland, OH. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 104.
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  • Felipe Adams, a 30-year-old Iraq war veteran, gripping his leg tightly as he experiences one of many episodes of phantom pain at his parents home in Inglewood, California. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a day in the month of September was 2100 kcals. He is 30 years of age; 5 feet, 10 inches tall; and 135 pounds. Felipe was paralyzed by a sniper's bullet in Baghdad, Iraq. Damaged nerves that normally enervate a missing or paralyzed body part can trigger the body's most basic warning that something isn't right: pain. Felipe experiences these phantom pains, which feel like stabbing electric shocks, dozens of times a day; they cause him to grip his leg tightly for a moment or two until the sensation subsides. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Robotic autonomous-control technology will become more and more useful to the disabled in the future, as Hugh Herr can testify. A double amputee, MIT Leg Lab researcher Herr is developing a robotic knee. Standard prosthetic joints cannot sense the forces acting on a human leg. But a robotic knee can sense and react to its environment, allowing amputees to walk through snow or on steep slopes now impassable for them. Cambridge, MA. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 181.
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  • Pinky (chaperoned by graduate student Dan Paluska) is the prototype of the next walking robot from the MIT Leg Lab in Cambridge, MA. Established in 1980 by Marc Raibert, the Leg Lab was home to the first robots that mimicked human walking?swinging like an inverted pendulum from step to step. Famously, Raibert even built a robot that could flip itself in an aerial somersault and land on its feet. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 182.
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  • Case Western research biologist James Watson nudges a cockroach onto an insect-sized treadmill, intending to measure the actions of its leg muscles with minute electrodes. To ensure that the roach runs on its course, Watson coaxes it onward with a pair of big tweezers. In the experiment, the electrode readings from the insect's leg are matched to its movements, recorded by a high-speed video camera. Cleveland, OH. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 105.
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  • Graduate student Dan Paluska adjusts mechanisms of the lower torso and extremity robot, called M2. The robot is funded by a DARPA (US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) program called Tactile Mobile Robotics. DARPA's goal is to replace soldiers and rescue workers in dangerous situations. MIT Leg Lab, Cambridge, MA.
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  • A 50 year old Somalian woman waiting to be fitted for a prosthesis in Hargeisa, Somaliland after losing her leg to a landmine while herding her cattle. Somaliland is the breakaway republic in northern Somalia that declared independence in 1991 after 50,000 died in civil war. March 1992.
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  • The M2 humanoid robot, built in the basement of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Leg Lab, took its first tentative steps in the year 2000. Dan Paluska, a mechanical engineering grad student, leads M2's hardware design and construction. The lower torso robot is funded by a DARPA (US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) program called Tactile Mobile Robotics. DARPA's goal is to replace soldiers and rescue workers in dangerous situations. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA USA.
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