The new fibers indicate changes in wound temperature
A Melbourne, Australia Ph.D. student has created the ultimate minor medical tool for moms. The student has developed a bandage that monitors the health of a cut and lets you know when it’s infected.
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Jillian Titus, 29, and her new mom, Sandra, 49.
Sandra Titus and her husband adopted a daughter last November. After the adoption went through, Sandra and her husband, Ross, reveled in their new family’s first Christmas together. One of their first gifts to their daughter Jillian: a sterling silver baby cup engraved with her new initials.
Continue reading… “Adult Adoptions On the Rise in the U.S.”
Facebook’s new facial recognition technology sparks concern of privacy campaigners.
Facebook is at the center of another privacy issue after bringing in facial recognition technology to automatically identify users in pictures. The world’s leading social network has begun rolling out new technology that automatically identifies and ‘tags’ people in photos uploaded to the website.
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Finally you can get a degree in comic books!
A Scottish university is to offer the UK’s first degree in comics. Dundee University said the one-year Masters in Comic Studies would be launched by its English department in September 2011.
The degree is built on “strong local traditions” in the comic book industry, the university said. Dennis the Menace, Desperate Dan, Oor Wullie and the Broons, the inventions of Dundee-based publishers DC Thomson and Co, were all born in the city…
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Warning! May cause nausea while watching.
Where is the strangest place you can affix a tiny GoPro camera to get a radical “point of view” video? I would have never come up with the inside of a hula hoop, but someone did, and that’s awesome.
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New nanotech method will allow better analysis of latent fingerprints.
Forensic investigators will be able to study old, dry fingerprints with a new fingerprint analysis method. This new method could potentially unmask new evidence in cold cases. The new method uses gold nanoparticles that are able to target amino acids on non-porous surfaces. This will allow better analysis of latent fingerprints.
Puyehue Volcano
A violent eruption of a volcano in the Caulle Cordon of southern Chile occurred on June 4th. The volcano was billowing smoke and ash high into the sky and prompting more than 3,500 people living nearby to evacuate and forcing cancellation of flights. Ash and gas continued to billow from the earth over the weekend. (Pics)
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People cannot develop close bonds with more than 150 friends.
Do you may boast of having an impressive list of friends on social networking sites like Facebook and Orkut? But a new study suggests that your brain can’t handle more than 150 friends.
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Now you can visually show who is the blabbermouth.
Talk-o-Meter is a new chat-monitoring iPhone app that shows when someone is dominating a conversation. After brief calibration, the app can recognize who is speaking and keeps track of each person’s talk time.”
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The jetpack is expected to be commercially available in the next 18 months.
New Zealand inventor Glenn Martin aims to have his “jetski for the skies” on the market within 18 months. He has created a jetpack suitable for everyday use by ordinary people with no specialist pilot training. (video)
The very first Hooters opened its doors on April 1, 1983.
The term used to describe restaurants that feature scantily-clad women as waitresses,”breastaurants,” are poised to become one of the fastest-growing restaurant categories, according to Entrepreneur magazine. Although it is hard to tell exactly how much these restaurants gross since they are lumped into the more general casual dining category, Hooters sales now net about $1 billion annually, after increasing from the past few years.
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Quantity of sunlight and eyesight have a direct correlation.
About two years ago, I was at a conference and one of the presenters brought up her idea that a significant cause of nearsightedness is the fact that so many of us spend most of the time indoors staring at computer screens, or in confined enough urban spaces that we don’t keep our eyes practiced at looking far into the distance. Turns out, she wasn’t too far off, though getting out in the open more is less about using our eyes for watching the distance and more about getting some sunlight. New research shows that if we want to prevent nearsightedness, we need to get outside into the sun.
Continue reading… “Want To Keep Your Eyesight? Study Shows Getting More Sunshine Is Key Factor”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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