At least one company is happy about rising food prices: SPAM sales are soaring as consumers are turning more to the much maligned meat to extend their already stretched food budget!

Diseased Bananas

The banana we know and love today actually suck when compared to the one our grandparents ate. That cultivar, called the Gros Michel, was bigger and tastier but alas it was hit by a blight called the Panama disease and went extinct by 1960.
Now, the banana we all eat, a variety called the Cavendish, […]

The Conveniently Geeky Bus

A new bus service called “BoltBus” offers free Wi-Fi an power outlets in all its vehicles.

Depicts one million plastic cups, the number used on airline flights in the US every six hours.

Artist Chris Jordan creates artwork that uses statistics as a major part of it. Each image represents something in the world that we all should take note of. The photographs are beautiful and the statistics are fascinating. He hopes […]

 
 
People traveling on Virgin Airlines may be left out if they prefer to use their Macbook Notebooks when traveling.
 

 
While some people go way over the top when choosing an abode for their pets, there really are times when it’s just to hot or cold for pets to stay safely outside. 
 

 
New research* shows that while engineered nanomaterials can be transferred up the lowest levels of the food chain from single celled organisms to higher multicelled ones, the amount transferred was relatively low and there was no evidence of the nanomaterials concentrating in the higher level organisms.  
 

UV light illustrates how the epoxy resin bleeds into a fracture
You may have heard about about Greece’s self-healing house, now aerospace engineers at Bristol University have applied the concept to the development of self-repairing aircraft.

 
Learning to aptly handle your PDA or the Cell Phone is not always easy for you need to master the keys on your keyboard.  
 

Cisco has unveiled and demonstrated their new On-Stage TelePresence Holographic Video Conferencing. In layman’s terms, it means that now you can actually do that thing they do in Star Wars when they talk to a Princess Leia hologram, and I have to say, it looks quite convincing…

 
It has been called the holy grail of the modern era - cheap solar energy. And scientists say it may be within our grasp soon.