Future past predictions don’t always look as expected.
Historic LOLs has a collection of German prints from around a hundred years ago illustrating predictions for the year 2000. In this one, we’re supposed to be able to walk on water, with the help of balloons and a waterwheel…
Continue reading… “German Futurist Predictions”
Between 2002 and 2009, the number of cesarean deliveries rose significantly, from 27 percent of births to 34 percent, finds a new report based on information from 19 U.S. states.
Continue reading… “C-sections in U.S. climb to all-time high”
A Russian Soyuz craft leaves the International Space Station.
Space officials in Russia are hailing the end of the space shuttle era as the beginning of the “Soyuz epoch.” Russian Soyuz craft will serve as the only way to get back and forth from the International Space Station, and NASA will be paying up to $63 million a seat for the ride for at least the next few years.
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Studies show how helpful it was to have older people around during early human development.
Not only are grandparents important for cuddles, cakes and good advice, they are also key to the evolution of human civilization, according to new research.
Being tall may increase the levels of certain hormones known to trigger tumors.
Researchers have revealed that taller women are more likely to get cancer. Their risk of developing some of the most common forms is up to a third greater.
Continue reading… “Taller women a third more likely to be diagnosed cancer”
A truly great mouse will never entrust his life to only one hole
“There are three kinds of men in the world. Those who learn by reading. Those who learn by observation. And all of the rest of them who have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.” – Will Rogers
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Futurist Thomas Frey: In 1936 Edwin Howard Armstrong unveiled an improvement in radio that would later become known as FM radio. Working out of an office on the 82nd floor of the Empire State Building, an office provided by RCA, Armstrong was on the verge of revolutionizing the radio industry. But it was a revolution that would not happen for several decades.
Continue reading… “Reinventing Monopolies”
State and local governments have cut 142,000 jobs this year.
Is the mass layoff making a comeback on an already lousy job market? Cisco, Lockheed Martin and Borders announced a combined 23,000 in job cuts this past week.
Continue reading… “The mass layoff making a comeback in the U.S.”
Eating the same food over and over again can make people uninterested in the meals that they start eating less.
Struggling to shed those extra pounds? Eat the same food every day, scientists say. Researchers at the University of Buffalo in the US found that eating the same food over and over again in successive meals can make people so uninterested in the meals that they start eating less.
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Memberly will make a substantial impact in online retailing.
Jack Cheng and his two cofounders launched Steepster, a social network for tea drinkers, in 2009. It soon occurred to them that a tea club, in which members receive a shipment of new teas each month, would be a perfect complement to the site. But they were working long hours to get their site off of the ground, and never thought about making the investment of time and money that starting such a program would entail .
Three years later, they decided to revisit the project — and while they were at it, solve the subscription program logistics problem for everyone else, too…
Continue reading… “Make your own subscription service: introducing Memberly”
The red indicates weather stations where U.S. Daily Highest Min Temperature Records were set on July 21, 2011
The 21st of July, it was hotter than hell across much of the Eastern US. Nights, which tend to have the daily minimum, were especially unpleasant. Out of 5,569 daily minimums recorded on the 21st, 188 broke previous records and another 138 tied them (exceeding or equaling, respectively, the previous record for daily minimum temperature)…
Continue reading… “From hot nights To dusty days – broken weather records are the new normal”
Media Moguls have accumulated over the years.
With the scandal unfolding in Britain we see just how powerful someone like Rupert Murdoch really is. However there have been many like him before as we see in this list of some of the most powerful media moguls in history. My favorite is Joseph Pulitzer (pictured). You know you have power when you have facial hair like that.
Since the dawn of mass media, newspapers, radio and television have all been used to inform and educate the public. They have also been used to whip mobs into a frenzy, control the world of politics and consolidate their owners’ power. These media moguls all straddled the line between entertainment and politics, preaching to the public and wielding an immense influence over lawmakers and politicians…
Continue reading… “10 most influential Media Moguls in history”
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