Amazing Octopus Footage
Nice video of a mimic octopus. They can also immitate other creatures like crabs and fish, this species was not even discovered until the 90’s because any sightings were assumed to be something else.

 
New Miracle Drug Restores Muscle Mass
A daily dose of an investigational medication has been found to restore muscle mass in the arms and legs of older adults and improve some of their biochemistry to levels found in healthy young adults, suggesting an anti-frailty drug has been found.

Women More Dirty Than Men
Wash your hands, folks, especially you ladies. A new study found that women have a greater variety of bacteria on their hands than men do. And everybody has more types of bacteria than the researchers expected to find.
“One thing that really is astonishing is the variability between individuals, and also between [...]

 
Lie Detector Head Band
 In the wake of immensely growing crime around the world, the best way out to nab a criminal is the use of an accurate lie detection test. The Narco test is one way of lie detection done nowadays. However, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel have come up with a [...]

 The Sea Phantom
Maritime Flight Dynamics wants to make high speed travel on the seas practical, safe, fuel-efficient and hell, while they’re at it, comfortable too. Their vehicle of choice? The SeaPhantom. It’s fast enough to get you from Key West to Cuba in 45 minutes! It uses an airfoil to fly above the crests of [...]

Amass the Biomass

When asked about alternative energy, most people think of solar and wind power generators. But there are other forms, like geothermal or biomass power system.
Our pal WebEcoist explores one unique benefit of using this form of alternative energy:

Bad Attitudes Get a Good Foot Bending

Badly behaved schoolchildren are set to face alternative punishment in the form of foot and head messages as a means of controlling bad behaviour. A London-run company called Bud-Umbrella will work in 60 primary and 14 secondary schools, offering the alternative therapy to improve unruly children’s behaviour.
Lambeth Council in south [...]

For the myopic eyeball toucher, this is brilliant: an electronic contact lens case with a simple LED display that tells you how long it’s been since you started wearing your current set of contacts.

 
Robert X. Cringely
Robert X. Cringely: It isn’t very often I get to apply Moore’s Law to a non-Information Technology business and rarer still that I can then relate the whole thing back to Microsoft, so I’m going for it. Here’s what the solar power industry can teach us about Microsoft.