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Pew Research: News Media Crosses Political Lines

October 17th, 2008 at 12:44 pm » Comments (0)

 
 Only a small percentage of people in the US are able
to identify Condoleezza Rice and Gordon Brown
When the Pew Research Center tested the public’s political knowledge earlier this year, the best-informed news audiences crossed the ideological spectrum. Nearly half of regular readers of The New Yorker, The Atlantic and Harper’s Magazine (48%) answered three political [...]



Niagara Falls: A Tale of Two Cities

October 17th, 2008 at 12:06 pm » Comments (0)

“A man made beauty”
Less than two miles separate Niagara Falls, New York from Niagara Falls, Ontario. Yet, the distance between the two cities using virtually any other measurement is enormous



Armyworms attack!

October 17th, 2008 at 11:43 am » Comments (0)

“Small creature, Enormous Damage”
DALLAS – Texas farmers are once again battling armyworms and the voracious creatures are attacking fields and pastures in formidable numbers…



Dark Energy Site

October 17th, 2008 at 11:34 am » Comments (0)

 
“Darkness turns to light”
I think it’s funny — “both haha” funny and “strange” funny — that we have almost no clue about 72% of the Universe.That nearly 3/4 chunk of the cosmic budget is dark energy, the mysterious force (or pressure, really)…



Transport Pod Bed

October 17th, 2008 at 10:47 am » Comments (0)

 
Very much like the popular Metronaps Energypod, Napshell Sleeping Cocoon, and the Transport Pod Bed, the “Bubble of Silence” has been designed to create the perfect environment to avoid the noisy and stressful world. The exteriors of the Bubble have been influenced by natural ornaments such as shells, pebbles, cocoons and bubbles while the interiors [...]



Obesity May Be Linked To A Brain Error

October 17th, 2008 at 10:35 am » Comments (0)

 
Obese people may have a diminished ability to experience the pleasure of eating, prompting them to overindulge to boost their satisfaction, according to a study released on Thursday.



BioHAWT – Wind Turbine Designed To Heat Residential Homes

October 17th, 2008 at 10:25 am » Comments (0)

Featured Invention at the Colorado Inventor Showcase 
BioHAWT – A Biomimetic horizontal axis wind turbine designed for power generation for the public sector hybridized with an oxy-hydrogen furnace burn to heat residential homes.



YouTube Now World’s Number 2 Search Engine

October 17th, 2008 at 9:55 am » Comments (0)

YouTube World’s #2 Search Engine
 Productivity is dead, the internet is going to explode. According to ComScore’s August 2008 search engine rankings, YouTube is now the number two search engine in the world, surpassing Yahoo.
 



Minoru 3D Webcam

October 17th, 2008 at 9:46 am » Comments (0)

 
 Minoru 3D Webcam
Bearing a funny Japanese name and a UK origin the Minoru is designed to deliver the Internet experience in 3D.



The Untouchable HIV Camera

October 17th, 2008 at 9:40 am » Comments (0)

 
 
HIV Camera
 Sanity never has a defined ground; creators often change reasons to get to something fresh and untamed each time. As HIV spreads beyond our control, and when scientists are found with their hands in the air, claiming no guarantee to coming up with a vaccine against HIV – we came across this HIV camera, [...]



Vitamin D And Sun Exposure Play A Role In Disease Prevention

October 17th, 2008 at 9:38 am » Comments (0)

The sun is a natural and effective source of Vitamin D that we need to protect our bones, protect us from auto-immune diseases, help prevent Alzheimers disease, and protect us from certain kinds of cancers. Deficiencies in vitamin D are highly-linked to these diseases. Now, researchers at Emory University School of Medicine have found that [...]



Is The TV Crash Of 2009 Coming?

October 17th, 2008 at 9:11 am » Comments (0)

TV Crash?
Next year could be a very bad time for television. And I’m not talking about the people who make Heroes or CSI. No, I’m referring to the manufacturers.
No doubt the various TV makers have been eagerly awaiting the transition from analog to digital broadcasting, due to happen on Feb. 18, 2009, which many were [...]