Quantum fluctuations may melt glass when it gets too cold.
Anyone who’s seen enough old Sesame Street episodes or been to enough Renaissance Fairs knows that when glass gets hot enough, it turns to liquid. Applied heat pumps energy into the solid pieces of glass, getting their molecules jiggling. As the heat dissipates, the glass becomes cool and solidifies again.
Continue reading… “Amazing Discovery – Glass Melts When it Gets Ultracold”
Smoking habit could cost you your job if you work at a hospital.
Smokers now face another risk from their habit: it could cost them a shot at a job. More hospitals and medical businesses in many states are adopting strict policies that make smoking a reason to turn away job applicants, saying they want to increase worker productivity, reduce health care costs and encourage healthier living.
Continue reading… “Hospitals Shifting From Smoke-Free to Smoker-Free Workplaces”
Want to lift your nose? Now you can with the Electric Beauty Lift High Nose.
Push up that nose of yours to create the perfect profile with this handy Beauty Lift High Nose, a beauty gadget that applies gentle electric vibrations from the bottom, side and front. Just slip it on and turn on the switch on the front of the frame…
Fashion Directly From Your Food
Forget about plunking down thousands of dollars and putting your name on a yearlong waiting list – to score New York’s latest “it” bag, you’re encouraged to eat the cow it comes from first. Sold exclusively at the Williamsburg restaurant Marlow & Sons, Breton tote bags boast supple leather and a price tag that ranges from $300 to $400.
But buying one isn’t so easy…
Continue reading… “Restaurant Makes Handbags From The Cow You Eat”
Okay, okay, we get it. House Republicans don’t like the idea of trying to reign in pollution. I mean really don’t like it. Many of them already claimed that climate change wasn’t real on the campaign trail, and said they’d fight climate legislation. Then, the powerful chairman of the House Energy Committee, Fred Upton (R-MI), has already sponsored a bill designed to prevent the EPA from enforcing the Clean Air Act, claiming it would kill jobs and whatnot. Now, House Republicans have released their vaunted plan for massive federal spending cuts. At the top of the list? The EPA.
Continue reading… “EPA’s Budget To Be Slashed”
Mmm… beer marshmallows. My inner Homer Simpson is doing cartwheels right now. You know, while he can. Before I get my hands on these things of beauty, spawned by some mad food genius, and just totally let myself go. I mean I have will power and everything, but come on!
The question is, why hasn’t someone thought of this before now?
Cloudy with a chance of…
Experts at NASA have sighted thin, wispy clouds of ice particles similar to Earth’s cirrus clouds on one of Saturn’s moons, Titan.
Continue reading… “NASA Finds Earth’s Cirrus-Like Ice Clouds on Saturn’s Moon Titan”
The world’s smallest engraving by human hand has been completed on the edge of a razor blade.
Graham Short etched the motto “Nothing is impossible” which measures just a tenth of a millimetre. The letters are invisible to the naked eye, and can only be read with a medical microscope at 400 times magnification.
YouTube has just sealed a deal with RightsFlow, a music publishing rights management company.
RightsFlow today announced an agreement with YouTube to assist with music rights management. The deal allows YouTube to enlist RightsFlow’s help in processing and managing music rights, and it should help the online video company to make rights administration a lot faster and simpler, which would in turn drive royalties for rights-holders, including publishers and songwriters…
Continue reading… “YouTube Enlists Help for Music Rights Management”
Chart compares hospitalizations for stroke, by age group.
Strokes are rising dramatically among young and middle-aged Americans while dropping in older ones, a sign that the obesity epidemic may be starting to reshape the age burden of the disease.
Continue reading… “Dramatic Increase in Strokes Among Young and Middle-Aged Americans”
It seems as though the Catholic Church really really wants us to go to confession, so much so that apparently it has sanctioned a new iPhone app aimed at bringing some of the wandering sheep back into the fold. (video)
Continue reading… “Do You Need to Confess Your Sins? There’s an App for That”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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