9/12

1. In the first-ever soccer match between humans and robots yesterday, the U.S. women’s team tied North Korea.

2. A new study shows that psychology students are more likely to yawn than engineering students when they see someone else yawning. At first they thought this was because psychology students are more empathetic, but actually the university’s psychology department was just really boring.

3. In preparation for the Olympics, China has developed computers that can understand a variety of languages over the phone. Efforts are being made to also install the computers in the United States at Chinese takeout restaurants.

4. Scientists have found a Viking ship under the parking lot of a bar. They are now working hard to find out exactly where it came from, because the owners will owe about five million in parking fees.

5. Researchers discovered that birds called godwits fly as much as 7,150 miles to lay eggs, without eating or drinking. And humans riot if they don’t get a meal flying from New York to Chicago. The name ‘godwit’ comes from the fact that when God created these birds, he definitely had a sense of humor. “Sure, they’re from New Zealand, but let’s have them fly across an entire ocean to lay their eggs. Ha ha ha!”