Its Whats Inside That Counts
New research has shown that obese children have arteries of a 45-year old.
This study, presented at the American Heart Association’s annual scientific sessions in New Orleans states that obese children have neck arteries that have aged prematurely, which puts them at risk for future heart disease and cholesterol problems.
Researchers studied 70 [...]

Even Viruses Can’t Escape Evolution
Evolution, by the very meaning of the word, is generally thought to be a process that slowly unfolds over time, without outside interference.
But now scientists from Rice University are trying to force certain viruses to evolve erratically, in an attempt to kill them. The technique is called “lethal mutagenesis,” and while [...]

Find Out What Fido Is Doing When Your Gone With A New SnifTag
Most pet owners have wondered what their pet gets up to when they are out and about or at work. Before I had kids, my wife and I had a dog that would often come home colored pink. To this day we aren’t [...]

 
Sneaky Money
Sometimes, you just don’t want people to see your personal photos. And if you’re really, really paranoid about them being found, well, you need to take some drastic measures. Like by hiding them on a MicroSD card inside a hollow nickel.

 
Exhibit area at Colorado Inventor Showcase

A crowd of over 500 people attended the 4th Annual Colorado Inventor Showcase on November 10th at the Cable Center on the DU Campus. The event featured a keynote presentation by Jay Walker, founder of Priceline.com and John Calvert, Senior Examiner, United States Patent and Trade [...]

Darwinism or an Economic Illustration?

I love this adorable series of stuffed animals, the Food Chain Friends, delightfully Darwinian creatures which eat each other in one long daisy chain of carnivorous glutting.

 
Caught Sticky Fingered!
In these difficult times, manufacturers don’t want to raise prices but at the same time they face rising costs, so they elect to shrink the product. But they do so sneakily … behold the incredible shrinking peanut butter jar:
 

… a careful look at the jars of Skippy on the shelves may reveal a [...]

How Long Will The Islands Maintain?

The Maldives will begin to divert a portion of the country’s billion-dollar annual tourist revenue into buying a new homeland – as an insurance policy against climate change that threatens to turn the 300,000 islanders into environmental refugees, the country’s first democratically elected president has told the Guardian.

Carry it, don’t bury it.

The same people who make the Solio solar chargers have released a whole new line of bags, laptop sleeves, and gadget cases under the “Tread” brand. Each of the items is made from recycled inner tube tires.
Most of the smaller bags look fairly typical, but the “Transient Attache” and the “Sleeve” [...]

The cost to install a mini-nuke plant is $2,500 per home
Nuclear power plants smaller than a garden shed and able to power 20,000 homes will be on sale within five years, say scientists at Los Alamos, the US government laboratory which developed the first atomic bomb.