Health & Fitness
Sure it would be nice to have a googlebajillion MIP processor or some nano-opto-electronics to speed up your internet connection or a petabyte of storage on your keychain fob but these people are working on something that REALLY matters: odor-killing socks.
Ouch. This article from Wired Magazine confirms that the 50 year old barrel lock design used in all Krypto bike locks and in many other applications, can be opened with a Bic Pen. The funny part is that this has been known for at least twelve years. This story illustrates so many things. • It [...]
Here is a Reuters article on the National Cancer Institute’s new $145M USD nano-medicine funding plan.
This article and many other articles like it point out the coming demographic bubble. What I always notice is that the responses are always very pro-active. They assume that the seniors will enter their golden age with problems and then degrade from there when that does not have to be the case at all. I [...]
This article at Newsday.com talks about the release of the findings of a major study being presented at the Annual Meeting of the European Society of Cardiology. The research [...] followed 29,000 people in 52 countries. It took a decade and 262 scientists to complete the work, which, according to the editor of The Lancet [...]
Here are a couple of articles on the new report from the Inspector General of the EPA where he states that the White House directly changed the language in the press releases before they were releaased to the public around the time of 9/11. Now there is still a huge amount of pollution, possibly including [...]
This article on the Science & Consciousness review discusses the fact that brains appear to be persistent and consistent but their actual physical molecules are recycling in days, hours, and minutes. This makes me think of Steven Johnson’s excellent book Emergence: The Connected Lives Of Ants Brains Cities And Software wherein he discusses the life [...]
From one of my favourite newsletters, The Harrow Group Technology Report, comes this article on nanospheres, tiny little bits of material that were used in an amazingly successful cancer killing experiment: As published in pages 171 – 176 of Issue 2 of the June 25 Cancer Letters (an abstract is freely available while the full [...]
This is a great article from SF Gate on a whitewater rafting and paddling park that has just been built in Reno. And here is the photo gallery.
It has been said that in some societies in the world, if the village shaman curses an individual to death, that individual will be cast out from the rest of the village and the other villagers will pretend that the person does not exist. They will not feed, talk to, nor acknowledge the presence of [...]
Here is the mission statement of Happy Planet Foods. I found this on their Abundant C drink and I smiled all the way through as I read it. If only all mission statements could be so human: Our mission is to astonish your taste buds, nourish your body, unite you with the best sources of [...]
Nike has released a concept gadget called the EYE[D] at Nextfest – A celebration of the cars, spacecraft, gadgets, drugs, TV, and gadgets of the year 2014: [EYE]D Created by Nike Design The ultimate gadget from Nike Design offers myriad sports-related features on top of the basics like telephony, messaging, email, and Web surfing. Central [...]
The Universe is 14 billion years old and will either either re-collapse into itself, expand into a completely diluted state, or rip apart in its 36th billion year in a runaway expansion so violent that galaxies and planets will be torn asunder in a fraction of a second. How do we manage the polarity inherent [...]
