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Flying off the shelves: Chocolate-covered cicadas a hit in Maryland<\/p>\n
Some might cringe, but at one Maryland chocolate shop, 17-year-old insects are flying off the shelves. Sarah Dwyer, of Chouquette Chocolates in Bethseda, started coating cicadas in chocolate and selling them when the periodical Brood X emerged this spring for the first time since 2004.<\/p>\n
Denmark trial uses virtual reality game to boost COVID vaccinations<\/p>\n
Denmark researchers are using virtual reality to encourage more COVID-19 vaccinations, through a game of maneuvering through a virus-infected crowd in a city square. In an experiment by the University of Copenhagen, participants wear goggles to play an elderly person crossing the square while avoiding red-clothed bypassers infected with COVID-19. Vaccinated characters dress in blue.<\/p>\n
Giant drone sculpture menaces New York City, with intent<\/p>\n
A giant, white sculpture of a drone has appeared 25 feet (7.6 m) over Manhattan's High Line park, unnerving New Yorkers - which was the creators' intention. Sam Durant, the artist behind the fiberglass \"Untitled (drone),\" said the work was designed to \"remind the public that drones and surveillance are a tragic and pervasive presence in the daily lives of many living outside - and within - the United States.\"<\/p>\n
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