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…
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.
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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”
Yummy!
Bake cookies in a car? You betcha! In Amarillo, the temperatures have soared to over 100 degrees, and about 200 degrees in a closed car. Brittany Nunn of the Amarillo Globe-News baked chocolate chip cookies in her car. They took quite a while to bake, but the car smelled wonderful afterward…
A new way to offset emissions.
Airports need lots of room for planes to leave and land. And airplanes spew a lot of greenhouse gases. Idea: Grow crops on airport property to power the planes, and maybe help offset carbon emissions. It’s an idea that may be taking off in Michigan. Yep, taking off…
Continue reading… “Some Michigan airports are growing their own fuel”
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
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.
An array of 3D products have been launched – including this camera – but the products can harm your eyesight.
The latest must-have gadget such as smartphones in 3D could damage your vision and give you headaches, scientists have warned.
Continue reading… “Viewing 3D on you smartphone could damage your eyesight”
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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By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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