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Thomas Frey - Senior Futurist at the DaVinci Institute

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Top 5 Memorable Naked Moments in Music

February 8th, 2009 at 10:01 pm » Comments (1)

 
HA HA HA … DUH….You dont want to miss this!
Before the days of ladies tramps popstars parading around without their gitch on and giving us all the money shot of their down-belows, naked used to mean something. (Here’s a helpful tip – right before you leave the house, just do a mental checklist, you know… [...]



Stars Form At Record Speeds In Infant Galaxy

February 8th, 2009 at 9:48 pm » Comments (0)

 
When galaxies are born….. the heavens open up !
When galaxies are born, do their stars form everywhere at once, or only within a small core region? Recent measurements of an international team led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy provide the first concrete evidence that star-forming regions in infant galaxies are indeed [...]



Breakthrough To Treat Malaria

February 8th, 2009 at 9:44 pm » Comments (0)

Scientists Deactivate Malaria Parasite’s Digestive Machinery
A team of Monash University researchers led by Professor James Whisstock has made a major breakthrough in the international fight against malaria, which claims the life of a child across the world every 30 seconds.



Inner Workings Of Photosynthesis

February 8th, 2009 at 9:38 pm » Comments (0)

 

 

Revealed By Powerful New Laser Technique
Instant pictures showing how the sun’s energy moves inside plants have been taken for the first time, according to research out February 6 in Physical Review Letters.



Wolf In Dog’s Clothing?

February 8th, 2009 at 9:35 pm » Comments (0)

 Wolves May Be First ‘Genetically Modified’ Predators
Slipping through trees or across snow, the wolf has glided into legend on paws of white, gray or — in North America — even black.



New York’s Comic Con

February 8th, 2009 at 4:00 pm » Comments (0)

 
Find your inner dork and hey its completely ok
We attended Comic Con in New York on Saturday. The show was at the Javits center, the same place that hosts the New York Auto Show and Toy Fair. The show was sold out for the weekend, and at times it was too crowded for us to [...]



George Lucas Underground Volcano Lair

February 8th, 2009 at 3:50 pm » Comments (1)

 

 
Ranch why not build his own death star to reside
Every evil genius needs a lair from which the run all of their daily affairs: everything from selecting the color of the company letterhead to plotting world domination. Usually these are hollowed-out mountain fortresses, secret inactive volcano lairs, or undersea secret bases. Because if you’re going [...]



The Blackberry Story

February 8th, 2009 at 3:09 pm » Comments (0)

Lets have a talk about something that allows you to talk
The Blackberry as we know it has been around since 1999, but it didn’t become mainstream until a few years ago. In fact, its surge of popularity is fairly recent, and today 13 million people are the proud owners of Blackberrys. There is little doubt [...]



Homemade Soviet-era Russian Submarine

February 8th, 2009 at 3:06 pm » Comments (0)

 

Rub a Dub Dub a post-Soviet Sub

40-year-old Mikhail Puchkov decided to design and build a personal submarine during the stifling era of Leonid Brezhnev’s regime when he was barely twenty years old. He built it secretly in an attic in Ryazan, about 120 miles southeast of Moscow.
“I was not satisfied with the fate that was [...]



Bambu Pet Lounger

February 8th, 2009 at 3:03 pm » Comments (0)

Make your pets oh so stylish
Ah, lounge and dine, lounge and dine… Makes you want to be your own dog and cat. Pet Lounge Studios, a new company from sunny Florida, is making those experiences even more pleasurable for the lucky four-legged ones in your home. More pleasurable, more stylish, more eco-friendly, and more anatomically [...]



Intriguing UFO Report

February 8th, 2009 at 2:57 pm » Comments (1)

A UFO or what looks like and UFNose
Happened on Unexplained Mysteries which is shown on Channel 82 here in Mexico, well on MegaCable. This episode was about UFOs so the previews made it look interesting enough to get my notepad. The one that caught my interest was an incident in Kecksburg, PA in 1965. They [...]



Ecstasy Said To Be No More Dangerous Than Horse Riding

February 8th, 2009 at 2:46 pm » Comments (0)

Taking the drug ecstasy is no more dangerous than riding a horse, a senior advisor has suggested.
Professor David Nutt, chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), outlined his view in the Journal of Psychopharmacology.
The council, which advises the government, is expected next week to recommend that ecstasy is downgraded from a [...]



New Pygmy Seahorse Species

February 8th, 2009 at 2:31 pm » Comments (0)

Pygmy Seahorse Photo: Roberto Sozzani

Expeditions to the coral reefs of the Red Sea and Indonesia revealed a flurry of 5 new (and cute!) pygmy seahorses. This one above is the Walea pygmy seahorse, found off the waters of the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia.



Top 10 Photos of the Week

February 8th, 2009 at 6:40 am » Comments (3)

The mother trucker has been careful not to let any of her baby car-lings go hungry,
even though some of the car-lings had to pay dearly through their nose-lings
During the cold winter months we often long for summer. But around here, we long for odd things that happen for no reason, serve no purpose, and put [...]