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Also, your use of the term "Uncanny Valley" is pretty sketchy - it's specifically about the revulsion you feel to an automaton that's a little
Boing Boing David Pescovitz 2011
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And then there's Jean Grey, who apparently died in Uncanny X-Men #137.
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American Fantastic Tales, Volume 2: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now
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Gambit first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #266 in August 1990.
First Look: Taylor Kitsch as Gambit in Wolverine | /Film 2008
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They're often quite inventive (The Uncanny is a particular favorite in that regard), and the plots are engrossing.
Archive 2007-01-28 Bill Crider 2007
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While in his late work of the 1840s it will provide the description of the 'uncanny' which Freud famously draws upon in his article of 1919: "Uncanny is what one calls everything that should have stayed secret, hidden, latent, but has come to the fore" (Philosophie
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But as I discovered through comments left on the video, I was actually describing a concept known as the Uncanny Valley that had first been theorized by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori in 1970, and that Hollywood is well aware of.
Jonathan Kim: Mars Needs Moms and the Uncanny Valley Jonathan Kim 2011
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They're often quite inventive The Uncanny is a particular favorite in that regard, and the plots are engrossing.
Damnation Street -- Andrew Klavan Bill Crider 2007
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But as I discovered through comments left on the video, I was actually describing a concept known as the Uncanny Valley that had first been theorized by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori in 1970, and that Hollywood is well aware of.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Jonathan Kim 2011
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It's known as the Uncanny Valley, and to watch the videos of Boston Dynamics 'robots is to take a trip into its depths.
The Engineer - News 2010
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