As prices rise for oil and raw materials (even sawdust), fans of furniture made from cardboard call it more earth-friendly and affordable than its wooden counterparts, which usually requires felling trees, or furniture made of pressboard, which contains toxic glues. It’s also lightweight and can be packed flat for easy shipping.
 

Yes, the Powerizers look kinda dorky. And yes, you can end up permanently scarred and wounded. But these things look like a lot of fun. Check out the videos after the jump.
 

Where Have All The Workers Gone? is a POWERFUL. DRAMATIC, COMPELLING 5-minute presentation from workforce trends expert and Perfect Labor Storm 2.0 author Ira S Wolfe about demographic changes, worker skills, aging workforces and more are changing the way every organization will do business.
 

This new watch in the Diesel Signature collection has more dials than you will know what to do with.  It features a chronograph as well as four miniature movements. Over all, pretty nice looking and rugged at the same time, sporting a black genuine leather strap and stainless steel case, with stainless […]

Steve Jobs demonstrated a new “App Store” that will be pushed out to all iPhones in June. It’s available now in beta. This will be the exclusive avenue developers will use to get their iPhone apps, written to the newly released SDK, to customers. Developers will get 70% of the proceeds from sales of their […]

A 10-pound rodent pest called nutria ravaging southern wetlands in the US, which has been especially damaging to the marshland ecology in the Mississippi Delta following Hurricanes Rita and Katrina, may have finally met its match thanks to molecular science that includes the work of Professor Athula B. Attygalle, an expert in molecular chemistry and […]

Atlanta bar owner Rufus Terrill has built an armor plated remote control robot to video tape and chase away drug dealers and other unsavory characters who are causing problems in the neighborhood.

Ladies and gentlemen, meet your ancestor - in fact the ancestor of all animal life on Earth - the comb jelly.
Biologist Casey Dunn of Brown University and colleagues used DNA data from various species to determine that the comb jelly (Ctenophore), which emerged some 600 million years ago, is our true ancient ancestor.

Elizabeth Barrett is now 17 months old. She looks and acts like most babies her age, but Elizabeth can read.
Her mother Katy, a speech pathologist who is married to Michael, another speech pathologist, said that most people don’t believe their infant is a reader.
Aside from reading books every day, play-time means mom writes down a […]

This piano looks like it came straight out of a science fiction movie. The Schimmel Pegasus grand piano is not just all about good looks though, it features over 200 strings under a total tension of 176,520 newtons, and a key assembly composed of 10,000 pieces. It also sports a curved ergonomic keyboard and the […]

A police officer was tricked by an internet myth and sent an urgent message to more than 80 schools warning about the dangers of fictional drug “strawberry meth”.
Thousands of school children and their parents were alerted to the non-existent drug that police claimed was being handed out at the school gates.

This video provides a rare close-up bird’s-eye view of cloud streets, which are created when convection currents cut low-lying cumulus into long, clean strips. According to the video narration, these clouds floated just over the sea surface, stood 300 meters tall and stretched for over 100 kilometers.

 
Concerned by the whopping number of children in the age group of six to 59 months suffering from anaemia, the government is taking several steps, including providing supplementary and fortifying food and vitamins supplements to rectify the malady.
Health and Family Welfare Minister Anbumani Ramadoss told Lok Sabha on Wednesday that 69.5 percent […]

The brilliant artists on Flickr give us a very unique perspective about the future in the images and photos they have taken. Here is a provocative look at the world to come.
 

Warren Buffett, the famed US investor who heads Berkshire Hathaway Inc, replaced his friend and Microsoft Corp founder Bill Gates as the richest man in the world, Forbes magazine said on Wednesday.
The magazine estimated Buffett’s worth at $62 billion in its annual ranking of the world’s wealthiest people.