Happy New Year Teddy!
Teddy gets all festive for New Year’s Eve. He’s happy and talkative, as long as he’s got his corn!
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5 advanced in medicine predicted for 2012
What significant advances can we expect in 2012?
In 2011 some great medical feats were accomplished. Dallas Wiens became the first recipient of a full-face transplant in the United States, Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords survived a gunshot to her brain, and HIV researchers found a way to lower an infected person’s chance of transmitting the virus to sexual partners by 96 percent.
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What Is a hangover?
Ugh!
Yippee! Let’s poison ourselves with beverages that will make us violently ill! It was your battle cry last night, and today you’re paying the price. But what is that hangover you’re experiencing, exactly?
A hangover is your body’s reaction to drinking too much alcohol.
Everyone has a different tolerance (it’s usually lower for women than men), but anyone who drinks enough is sure to experience a cornucopia of symptoms which might include headache, diarrhea, nausea, fatigue, anxiety, trembling and a general sense of misery. It gets worse the more you drink, when you drink on an empty stomach, when you haven’t slept, or if you imbibe while shakin’ that thang on the dance floor (or rock climbing, or jazzercizing)…
Nationwide shortage of ADHD drugs prompts hundreds of calls daily to the FDA
Shortages of medicines like Ritalin and Adderall are so endemic that some patients say they worry almost constantly about availability.
Drugs to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are in such short supply that hundreds of patients complain daily to the Food and Drug Administration that they are unable to find a pharmacy with enough pills to fill their prescriptions.
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Year in Review: Top 10 Articles on FuturistSpeaker.com
Futurist Thomas Frey: The sixth law of the future states, “The “unknowability” of the future is what gives us our drive and motivation.”
The fact that the future is unknowable is a good thing. Our involvement in the game of life is based on our notion that we as individuals can make a difference. If we somehow remove the mystery of what results our actions will have, we also dismantle our individual drives and motivations for moving forward.
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Robots Suck At Scratching Vinyl
The DJs of the world can breathe a sigh of relief, because if this video is any indication, it’s going to be a long time before they’re in jeopardy of losing gigs to robots.
Watch in horror as this artificial turntablist lays down some of the worst beats I’ve ever heard from the wheels of steel. And that’s including my own feeble attempts on a friend’s 1200s.
Extreme grooming for animals
Punk Bird
Absolutely no photoshoppery involved here, no siree. I refuse to believe that punk bird is anything less than real, so I can’t tell you how Mladen Penev got animals to sit still long enough for impressive haircuts and mustache trims for ad agency Staudinger Franke and their client, the shavers and grooming equipment maker Braun.
(more photos after the jump…)
This Year’s Best Top 10 Photos of the Week
Even after moving into the limelight as a highly paid jewelry model,
Earl couldn’t escape the fact that he was still a pig
It’s been a wild year and our Top 10 Photos is a reflection of the craziness of our times.
Unbeknownst to most, the caption writer for this series is world renowned FuturistThomas Frey. This is one of his favorite pastimes. Over the years the Impact Lab’s Top 10 Photo series have bee seen by over 1 million people in every country in the world.
Here are this year’s Top 10 of the Top 10 Photos.
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Uninsured turn to Groupon and other daily deal sites for health care
Discounts from sites are helping some people fill holes in their health insurance coverage.
Mark Stella didn’t need an insurance card the last time he went to the dentist. Instead, he pulled out a Groupon.
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Organic milk shortage around the U.S.
“Where’s my organic milk?” There is a shortage of organic milk across the country, and it has become so bad in areas like the Southeast that Publix stores from Florida to Tennessee have put up signs in dairy cases anticipating the shopper’s frustration.
Gas and fuels become top U.S. export
Oil refineries in Deer Park, Texas
The United States is the world’s biggest gas guzzler. But for the first time ever the top export for the U.S. is — wait for it — fuel.
World’s first self-balancing electric unicycle
Bullet
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student has invented the first “self-balancing” electric unicycle. (Video)
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