Staring can be bad for your health
Evidence suggested that flickering movements were necessary for normal vision

Wow the world can be so cool
Sailing stones, fire rainbows, red tides and blue holes … were just the beginning. Imagine sidestepping a house-sized hole in the ground as it forms around you in seconds, walking through a field of razor-sharp ice spikes taller than yourself or fleeing from a deadly vortex of smoke and [...]

Scrabble Dreams And More

Scrabble lovers rejoice!
If you like playing board games such as Hasbro’s Scrabble, you are sure to love these giant wooden letter tiles. Each tile measures 6 inches high and 5 inches wide with a nicely rounded edge. Each tile features a large crisp letter and smaller number. Order as many or as [...]

Avoiding Chalk Boards At All Costs

A Utah woman listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for her long fingernails has lost them in a car crash.
Lee Redmond of Salt Lake City sustained serious but non-life-threatening injuries in the accident on Tuesday.
Redmond’s nails, which hadn’t been cut since 1979, were broken in the crash.

New Shock Absorber Harvests Energy From Bumps In The Road
A team of MIT undergraduate students has invented a shock absorber that harnesses energy from small bumps in the road, generating electricity while it smoothes the ride more effectively than conventional shocks.

 there is a possibility it eventually could cause cancer
A little more than a year after University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists showed they could turn skin cells back into stem cells, they have pulsating proof that these “induced” stem cells can indeed form the specialized cells that make up heart muscle.

More Than Just A Movie Series!

The sixth day of the week and the number 13 both have foreboding reputations said to date from ancient times, and their inevitable conjunction from one to three times a year (there happen to be three such occurrences in 2009, two of them right in a row) portends more misfortune [...]

 
Roomates and i just went through all of this cycle.. bluh
Scientists have begun to solve some of the mysteries of the common cold by putting together the pieces of the genetic codes for all the known strains of the human rhinovirus.

Oil And Gas Reserves Beneath The Earth’s Surface
It was the geological collision between India and Asia millions of years ago that created one of the world’s most distinctive places: The area around Lake Baikal in Siberia, which contains 20 per cent of the world’s fresh water reserves and a unique display of plant- and wildlife.’

Nanocarbon modeling may be the next step toward emulating human brain function. That’s the focus of USC electrical engineering professor Alice Parker’s “synthetic cortex” study funded by the National Science Foundation.