Tabasco tastes better in space.
That bottle of Tabasco may just be the secret sauce for interplanetary travel. That’s right, Tabasco.
Turns out that after spending some time in space, astronauts’ taste in food change…
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Futurist Thomas Frey: Five years ago was the beginning of 2007. George Bush was President, Arnold Schwarzenegger was governor of California, Barack Obama wasn’t very well known, and Saddam Hussein had just been executed in Iraq.
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Pew is calling this phenomenon “the pruning” of social networks.
Facebook users are getting a lot more selective, deleting comments, photo tags and even friends at a record rate, according to a new study released Friday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
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Cloud-top height fell one percent on average between March 2000 and February 2010.
Call Chicken Little, the sky really is falling. NASA satellite data has shown that the Earth’s cloud tops have been lowering over the last 10 years.
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Non-human rights for cetaceans?
At the largest annual science conference in the world, finished a few days ago in Vancouver, the call was again made for a Declaration of Cetacean Rights, with the emphasis this time on the fact that dolphins’ level of self-awareness is such that they should be considered non-human persons, individuals with an innate right to exist.
It’s really a pretty big mouthful conceptually, “non-human persons”. But before we delve into attempting to break that down into more manageable bites, here are some of the statements made by the presenters…
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Study reflects a dangerous trend toward the acceptance of marijuana and other substances compared to two years ago.
A growing number of teens do not see marijuana use as a distraction while driving. Nearly one in five (19%) say they have gotten behind the wheel after smoking pot, a study reported Wednesday. Thirteen percent of teens report driving under the influence of alcohol.
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Could your Facebook profile be a predictor of job performance?
Does a person’s Facebook profile predict what kind of employee he or she might be? Yes, and with unnerving accuracy, according to a new paper published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
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The rise in the use of smartphones and social media by consumers fueled the increase in identity fraud.
In 2011, nearly 12 million Americans were victims of identity theft, an increase of 13 percent over 2010, according to a report released on Wednesday by the research firm Javelin Strategy & Research.
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Alcohol problems not uncommon in surgeons.
According to a new survey, about 15 percent of surgeons have alcohol abuse or dependency problems, a rate that is somewhat higher than the rest of the population.
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Hearts respond to natural rhythms.
Sudden cardiac death -catastrophic and unexpected fatal heart stoppage — is more likely to occur shortly after waking in the morning and in the late night.
In a report in the journal Nature, an international consortium of researchers that includes Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland and Baylor College of Medicine explains the molecular linkage between the circadian clock and the deadly heart rhythms that lead to sudden death.
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Google forges forward with new privacy policies.
With Google’s privacy policy change looming, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a guide to turning off Google’s search-history logging, thus preventing your search-history from all of Google’s services, including YouTube, from being merged and tracked together. You can also erase your stored search-history while you’re there…
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Yup, this app is super handy.
Clean drinking water is something we might take for granted at home, but travelers need to be really careful about the source of their water. If they haven’t done the groundwork to determine the safety of the tap water, they could be in for a world of hurt, as there are many places where the quality of the water coming out of the tap is sketchy.
When you’re on the road, how can you know if the tap water is safe to drink? If you’re in the U.S.A., chances are you can trust that the local municipal water supply is completely safe to drink, but if you get off of the beaten path, it’s a whole different ball game…
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