Well its about time. But what about the McRib oh me want McRib
Zero trans-fat may soon becoming to a McDonald’s
near you. Not just McDonald’s, but all the other fast food chains that make those yummy deep-fried trans fatty fries you would love to eat right now.

I guess they will be changing their name from Greyhound to Brownhound. Eww!
Several days ago, we looked at “toilet to tap,” the increasingly useful art of turning sewage into drinking water. Orange County, Calif., which is pioneering the practice, is proud to tell you how thoroughly its filtration purges the sewage: “Thousands of microfilters, hollow [...]

A Touchy Subject

A friend of mine told me that while she was a student at Bennington College in Vermont, sea sponges were popular alternatives to tampons and pads. I should have gone to Bennington. It was organic shrooms, not sea sponges, going around at UCSB!
Now that I’m no longer in the dark about the sponges [...]

Natural ‘barcodes’ may improve face recognition software
Natural ‘barcodes’ of information, built into human faces for recognition of other people, may also help improve face recognition software, according to a study.

Miracle jab: Teriparatide doubles the speed at which broken bones mend
Hundreds of thousands of people suffering from devastating fractures have been offered new hope from a drug that “miraculously” boosts the healing process of bones.

John Reid with his Cymascope at his workshop 
A Cumbrian scientist believes that we may soon be able to speak to dolphins – with his new invention which translates their clicking into words.

Mark Pitcher’s posted a set of Soviet nuclear controls that look exactly as I pictured high-tech equipment looking when I was a kid (shown here is a nuclear detonator panel (!) that bristles with high-tech menace): “Equipment built during the 1940’s to 1970’s for use in the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site (the ‘Polygon’). All are [...]

Avant’s Santelubain 999 Automatic Human Washing Machine
All of us who see bathing and showering as an inefficient practice, and have been waiting for a technical innovation to make it still more effortless, could feel delighted with the introduction of the Avant’s Santelubain 999, an automatic human washing machine. Best introduction for salons etc. a user [...]

Surprise!

Surgeons in Russia’s Urals Region were staggered to find a 5-centimeter high spruce growing inside a man’s lung.
The discovery was made while Artyom Sidorkin, 28, from the Urals city of Izhevsk, was undergoing surgery.
Sidorkin had complained of extreme pain in his chest and had been coughing up blood, doctors suspected cancer.
“I blinked three times and [...]

The Renewable House is a timber frame house with hemp-lime walls.
Britain’s University of Bath’s Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, its Department of Mechanical Engineering, and the Building Research Establishment Ltd (BRE)  formed a partnership in 2006 to conduct research on innovative and sustainable construction materials and to provide knowledge and leadership to the building [...]