"Herds of robotic traffic cones" might eventually be closing down lanes on a freeway near you -- humans safely on the side of the road away from potential harm. These new road markers have a leader (called the shepard) who herds his little sheep into line to demarcate closed sections of road. The shepard is equipped with GPS, the human on the side of the road sits and tells the shepard where to go, the shepard watches over his little flock and goes and turns off any bad, straying sheep so it stays out of harm's way. Isn't that cute?

The article wasn't as nearly good as the title, Women marry men who look like dad. Basically, women who have a warmer connection with dad tend to choose a husband that looks more like the old man than those who don't. I think my father's an attractive man and feel very warmly towards anyone that looks somewhat like my father -- for example, my girlfriend has a father who physically resembles mine (though he's caucasian and mine, of course, is not), and is also quiet and has a good sense of humor like my dad, and I feel extremely fond of him though I haven't spent much time with him or talked much with him. She's also told me lots of stories about her dad so I'm sure that taints the amount of affection I feel for him -- I tend to absorb some of the intensity my friends feel for other people and it breeds that much more affection in me for those people.

So, I'm not particularly close to my father. And I don't find him a particularly communicative man -- and I like communicative men. I suppose then, that the chances I'd end up with someone that looked like dad would be lessened by those facts. I do however feel an irrational amount of affection for him -- I wonder if that tips the balance oddly...