I told you to meet me at 3!

One of the fine artists over at ETSY brings us a cluster buckler for our brain. Behold the math clock. Finally a use for all those equations you’ve gathered over the years.

 
 Dynamic Towers
We’ve seen Dynamic Towers, the planned condo skyscraper in Dubai where every floor rotates independently. But according to The Economist, this Jetsons-esque way of living could become the next big thing in luxury housing.

 
 
A new study in the journal Social Science Quarterly examined the relationship between first name popularity in adolescents and tendency to commit crime. Results show that, regardless of race, juveniles with unpopular names are more likely to engage in criminal activity.
David E. Kalist and Daniel Y. Lee of Shippensburg University analyzed state data by comparing [...]

 
How reliable are eyewitness accounts, whose testimony is crucial to the outcome of many criminal trials? They can be easily confused, researchers say.

 GPS Homing Device
Seriously, have you ever lost your car in a parking lot? Your car lock beep can only be heard so far. But the GPS Homing Device can get you back to your car or wherever you want to return, step by step, if you need it.

 
 Lumitop
Fiber optics are, well, fiber. Makes sense to weave those fibers into haute couture fashion clothing. Not exactly designed for shrinking violets, the Lumitop clothing line will make a statement on any dancefloor or red carpet. Check out the gallery below for more samples of this latest stab at tech fashion. There’s even something for [...]

Birds Survived Mass Extinction That Wiped Out Dinosaurs Because Of Their Larger Brains
The Cretaceous–Tertiary mass extinction 65 million years ago may have wiped out the dinosaurs, but those that survived – the ancestors of today’s birds – may have done so because of their bird brains.

How did the dinosaur Triceratops use its three horns? A new study led by Andrew Farke, curator at the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology, located on the campus of The Webb Schools, shows that the headgear was not just for looks. Battle scars on the skulls of Triceratops preserve rare evidence of Cretaceous-era combat.

Helium Rains Inside Saturn, Jupiter And Other Jovian Planets, Research Suggests
Models of how Saturn and Jupiter formed may soon take on a different look. By determining the properties of hydrogen-helium mixtures at the millions of atmospheres of pressure present in the interior of Saturn and Jupiter, physicists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the University [...]

New research into language evolution suggests most Pacific populations originated in Taiwan around 5,200 years ago. Scientists at The University of Auckland have used sophisticated computer analyses on vocabulary from 400 Austronesian languages to uncover how the Pacific was settled.

Music Preference may encourage Ebonics in children
Researchers at the Institute for Psychology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation of the University of Amsterdam demonstrated that two to three day old babies can detect the beat in music.

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A new study in the Journal of School Health found that physically fit kids scored better on standardized math and English tests than their less fit peers.

 
Bizarre it may seem, but a new study has suggested that cows with names can produce more milk than those who are not named.

ABC vs QWERTY

Almost 140 years after Christopher Sholes solved the typebar jamming problem in alphabetically organized typewriters by creating the QWERTY alignment comes the Fast Finger Keyboard, which will prove maddeningly unusable to all but Luddite grannies and time-traveling Gutenburgians.

Keeping it all together.
A simple but gorgeous idea by designer sherwood Forlee: die-cut pads of paper, the corners of which can be easily folded over to staplelessly stick them together.

Wait till you see the mouth moss grills…

Last I checked basic jewelry offers a vast multitude of stylish, and some not-so-stylish, rings for consumers to choose from. We have promise rings, mood rings, earrings, engagement rings, wedding rings, class rings, Lord of the Rings (yes, Gollum’s “precious” is available to purchase). But now, thanks to [...]

 
 Cate Lawrence speaking at the recent Management by Strengths Boot Camp
Raymond Alvarez:  Color me direct.  Ever wonder why some people react in unexpected ways to your communications – or maybe on reflection, your style was completely misinterpreted?
Cate Lawrence, founder of Lawrence Research Associates, recalls a personal confrontation in which a co-worker had accused her of everything [...]

WARNING: If you loved march of the penguins, READ THIS… and be very sad
Popularized by the 2005 movie “March of the Penguins,” emperor penguins could be headed toward extinction in at least part of their range before the end of the century, according to a paper by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) researchers published in [...]

Good Plants Vs. Bacteria Covered
Through work originally designed to remove contaminants from soil, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and their Belgium colleagues at Hasselt University have identified plant-associated microbes that can improve plant growth on marginal land.

Can’t help being the life of the party? Maybe you were just born that way. Researchers from Harvard University and the University of California, San Diego have found that our place in a social network is influenced in part by our genes, according to new findings published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of [...]

Futuristic Boat~Baby Beetles Inspire Scientists To Build ‘Mini Boat
Inspired by the aquatic wriggling of beetle larvae, a University of Pittsburgh research team has designed a propulsion system that strips away paddles, sails, and motors and harnesses the energy within the water’s surface.

 
 First study to reveal how the brain holds temporary information
 
Individual nerve cells in the front part of the brain can hold traces of memories on their own for as long as a minute and possibly longer, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.

I’ve long been a proponant of napping. It’s not just that science has proven a siesta boosts your mood and your intelligence – it’s just civilized, like tea and scones at two.
Here’s everything science knows about napping — where to do it, how to do it, how long to do it and if you [...]

 
Board Game CLUE 
A newly developed mathematical model that figures out the best strategy to win the popular board game CLUE© could some day help robot mine sweepers navigate strange surroundings to find hidden explosives.