Futurist Thomas Frey: For most of us, the language we speak is like the air we breathe. But what happens when we wake up and find that our air is going extinct?
Better regenerative implants with 3D bio-printing
3D bio-printer
In the growing field of desktop 3-D printers they can already pump out a little trinket, a gear set or even parts to make another printer. Researchers in the medical field are also taking advantage of this accelerating technology to expand their options for regenerative medicine.
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Unhappiness leads to bad financial decisions: Study
“Present bias,” a phenomenon that makes us crave immediate gratification at the expense of even greater rewards later on.
People tend to spend more money when they are blue, whether it’s treating yourself to an elegant dinner after a tough day or picking up a new outfit during a nasty breakup. Harvard University researchers looked in the the anecdotal evidence and found that feeling down can take a serious toll on your wallet.
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Makeup may be the key to a woman’s success
Models with no makeup and natural, professional and glamorous makeup.
In a recent study from the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Procter & Gamble, and Boston University, they had a sampling of over 200 individuals, both men and women, participants rated women wearing makeup as more competent than women without makeup.
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Scientists plan to clone Brazil’s endangered species
Black Lion Tamarin, the most endangered of the eight species in Brazil
Scientists in Brazil want to expand a mass effort to clone the populations of eight endangered species. The Basilia Zoological Garden, along with Embrapa, the government’s agricultural research agency are spearheading the project.
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Top 10 Photos of the Week
China’s notorious puppy gang recruits members of all ages.
Price of admission? One puppy!
Quote of the Day: “When you step on the brakes, your life is in your foot’s hands.” – George Carlin
Cyber Monday will remain biggest ecommerce day of the year
41% of US consumers planned to shop on Black Friday this year.
Holiday promotions by retailers are earlier and earlier every year. The buzz has moved progressively from “Cyber Monday” to Black Friday and finally to Thanksgiving Day itself, with reports of mass merchants beginning their sales in the middle of what is for many still an important family holiday.
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College credit eyed for massive open online courses
A pilot project will determine whether some free online courses are similar enough to traditional college courses that they should be eligible for credit.
While MOOC’s, massive open online courses, are still in their early days, the race has begun to integrate them into traditional colleges by making hem eligible for transfer credits, and by putting them to use in introductory and remedial courses.
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Americans are the worst tourists in the world: Survey
Tourists in Paris.
When we travel are we really the stereotype of the “ugly American”? LivingSocial and Mandala Research carried out a new survey that says we seem to be. And to make it worse it was mostly Americans ranking fellow Americans.
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Most popular music scenes in America
Gary LeVox of Rascal Flatts performs.
Over the past twenty years the geography of popular music has changed considerably. The internet and social media have obviously played a large role. While industries like automobiles or steel still cluster around resources, cheap labor and transportation routes, or high-tech companies cluster around skilled labor and universities, the forever altered music industry now has fewer physical reasons to cluster — musicians no longer need to be near any particular resource to record and distribute their work anymore. And yet, they clearly still do cluster, just perhaps for slightly different reasons.
Job ad looking for “lively and good-looking women” as condom testers pulled
A condom manufacturer was looking to hire “lively and good-looking women” aged 18 to 25 to work as condom testers.
In China a website has removed a job advertisement seeking women as condom testers in Shanghai after some people said it was a guise for prostitution.
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Dating survey has men in Shanghai seeing red
More men from Shanghai than those in other parts of the country want women to split the bill.
A recent survey in Shanghai polled around 44,000 eligible men and women in China found that some Shanghai guys out on their first date expect their women to split the bills!
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