Thomas Frey - Senior Futurist at the DaVinci Institute

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Top 10 Animal Photos of the Week

August 25th, 2007 at 8:22 pm » Comments (0)

Crazy, crazy animals.  Just the way they were meant to be.



Porn for Women

August 25th, 2007 at 8:18 pm » Comments (0)

Just when you thought you were understanding women better, this comes along.



Alcohol May Reduce Risk of Colon Cancer

August 25th, 2007 at 4:10 pm » Comments (0)

Alcohol consumption may lower the risk of developing kidney cancer, according to a report in the British Journal of Cancer.



Banning Guns Does No Good

August 25th, 2007 at 4:08 pm » Comments (0)

Senior police officers have been warning for several months that a growing number of teenagers in big cities are becoming involved in gun crime, despite ban since 1997.



School for Cats Now Open in New York

August 25th, 2007 at 4:03 pm » Comments (0)

New York cats of all stripes braved the downpour yesterday to attend the first day of classes at a special school where their owners can learn to "think like a cat."



Newest Diet Fad, a New Fork

August 25th, 2007 at 3:52 pm » Comments (0)

Is your fork getting you down? Maybe you need the Diet Fork.



New “Shoes” for Paws

August 25th, 2007 at 3:41 pm » Comments (0)

Would you walk barefoot across a paved road on a 100-degree day, of course not, your pets probably don’t want to do it either.



Top Ten Reads in Literature

August 25th, 2007 at 3:35 pm » Comments (0)

This list is by no means all-inclusive, but it should give you an idea of a few great classics, which really are worth reading at least once. Read more about these must reads in literature, and then enjoy more works by these classic writers.



Explosive Crystal

August 25th, 2007 at 12:22 pm » Comments (0)

300 years after its discovery, the crystal structure and molecular structure of mercury fulminate are determined.



Porn Thwarted by 16 Year Old

August 25th, 2007 at 12:17 pm » Comments (0)

After investing a cool $84 million in devising a porn filter the Federal Government in the land down under are now reeling, thanks to a 16-year-old schoolboy. Tom Wood, (who could actually be a porn star with that name), managed to hack the security measure within 30 minutes of it going live, last Tuesday.



Moose Belch Contributes to Global Warming

August 25th, 2007 at 12:08 pm » Comments (0)

A grown moose belches out methane gas equivalent to 2100 kilograms of carbon dioxide a year, contributing to global warming, Norwegian researchers said on Wednesday.



Why Fear the Future?

August 25th, 2007 at 12:04 pm » Comments (0)

Thomas Frey:  Few of the science fiction buffs watching reruns of Matt Groening’s now-defunct cartoon classic Futurama have any idea the name of the show was coined half a century earlier for a wildly popular ride at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York.