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Obviously, the soaring cost of energy is causing plenty of pain for Americans, especially at a time when they’re being hammered by declining house values and rising food prices. The pain isn’t about to ease, either.
 

When Viviane Maraghi took blood tests to find out how many chemical pollutants were in her body, she expected the number to be low. An environmentalist, she carefully monitored what she ate and the household products and items she purchased.
 

In 1832, English author William Hone (1780 - 1842) published The Year Book of daily Recreation and Information*, an almanac of sorts in which included this quirky and wonderful “Alphabet for Beginners” (amazing they still mostly apply today).

Monitoring artificial joints should be common practice
Dr. Lawrence Dorr, a nationally known orthopedic surgeon in Los Angeles, realized last year that something was very wrong with some of his patients.
Months after routine hip replacements, patients who had expected to live without pain were in agony. “The pain was grabbing me around the back,” said Stephen […]

The Electric Nomad is a standard sized electric guitar that features all the usual features, usability and playability of a normal electric guitar; however, it is designed so that it collapses in on itself down to an easy to carry size.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3HGfIy_zCI

 
A new product from Microsoft Research. The Sphere comes from the same Microsoft Researchers that developed the Surface, aka “PlayTable”.
 

Arun Ghosh, at right, a Purdue professor of chemistry and medicinal chemistry, and graduate
student Xiaoming Xu discuss the structure of an enzyme inhibitor designed to treat Alzheimer’s disease
Scientists in Britain have developed a drug which could represent a major breakthrough in treatment for people with Alzheimer’s disease, they said on Wednesday.
The drug, Rember, targets the […]

Looks like a vacuum cleaner when folded
A British designer has come up with a sports car that can be folded in half to park it in tight spaces. Daniel Bailey, 22, has revealed that the BRB Evolution jacks up on its nose with its back wheels sliding underneath on two rollers, and thus uses 50% […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdgdBOTUSqg

Your life will not be complete until you are a contestant on a Japanese game show
This Japanese game show is set in library, so everyone has to whisper. Extremely funny. Second video after the jump.
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO5ifLzLYiU

Yummy
Viewed over a million times, this footage was filmed in St. James Park, London Sunday 7th August 2005.