Half of teenage girls are dangerously low in key nutrients.
A diet of pizza, sweets, and sugary drinks is taking a severe toll on the health of young women which is having implications as they get older, nutritionists have discovered.
American cities built for the young strained by aging boomers
Atlanta Regional Commission project constructed the new ramp to accomodate the aging population in Atlanta.
People are getting old, fast, and they’re doing it in cities designed for the young. Cities in American are grappling with that fact as work on getting the communities ready for an older population has gotten a late start considering demographers have warned for a long time that the population is about to get older.
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The Connected States of America
When you think of a map of the US, you probably break it down by state or quadrants or party affiliation. But MIT, IBM and AT&T’s research teams decided to look at who was talking to whom, and the resulting map is pretty captivating.
The researchers organized anonymous data from AT&T mobile phones into interactive maps illustrating which areas place the most calls and texts, and who they’re communicating with. The colors represent areas that areas that communicate heavily locally, while the lines are for areas of the country that are in heavy contact remotely, like San Francisco and New York…
Scribble Tablecloth
Brainstorming over lunch! No more wasted lunch breaks.
Meet the Doodle Tablecloth. The Doodle Tablecloth is pre-shrunk 100% cotton and is printed to look like a giant piece of graph paper, complete with printed lines, holes, and red margins. It comes with eight wash-out fabric markers…
World’s steepest roller coaster
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The Takabisha roller-coaster is set to open at the Fuji-Q Highland Amusement Park in Japan. This is the 14th Guinness world record-breaking ride at this amusement park.
Melting ice at the North and South Poles is adding to the Earth’s girth
The Earth had been ‘slimming down’ by just under a millimetre a year following the Ice Age, but global warming is reversing this process.
Is global warming to blame for the Earth putting on ‘weight’ around its ‘midriff’? According to scientists, melting ice in Antarctica and Greenland due to global warming is adding volume to the oceans and this extra water is being pulled towards the Equator, adding to the girth at the widest part of our planet.
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Top 10 ticketed cars in America
Does what we drive affect how we drive?
Quality Planning , an analytics company that works with auto insurers asked the question: Does what we drive affect how we drive? They ranked vehicles most likely to get a ticket based on the number of moving violations issued for each 100,000 miles driven. There are a few predictable entries in the top 10 list but the list is not totally comprised of flashy red sports cars.
World’s first 3D chocolate printer
3D chocolate printer
The world’s first 3D chocolate printer has just been unveiled in the U.K., . A 3D printer creates objects by gradually stacking layers of material into a desired shape. That is also how the chocolate version operates. It is also known as additive manufacturing in which the process has mostly been used for plastic and metal production but is not quite as tasty. (Video)
Amazing 5-story house filled with hammocks
The FLEDERHAUS
This amazing structure is an urban oasis situated in Vienna Austria designed by architects Heri & Salli. Visitors can hang out, quite literally. (Pics)
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This boy has a magnetic personality
Paulo David Amorim’s friends call him “Magnet Boy”. This 11-year-old Brazilian boy’s abdomen, chest and back attract metal! The boy’s doctor, Doctor Dix-Sept Rosado Sobrinho, says he’s never seen anything like it but is not concerned about the boy’s health…
Odd Day
Something is certainly odd about this date.
Today is Odd Day. Three consecutive odd numbers make up the date only six times in a century. After 7/9/11, only two days remain in this parade of Odd Days which began with 1/3/5. The previous stretch of dates like this started with 1/3/1905. Odd Day was founded by Californian teacher Ron Gordon…
Can’t decide on a tattoo? Get a QR Code inked on your chest!
As part of whisky brand Ballantine’s “Leave an Impression” campaign, Paris-based tattoo artist Karl Marc seared a QR code onto his friend Marco’s chest.
Marc says the whisky company approached him and asked if he would be interested in executing the tattoo — a QR code that unlocked an animation when scanned — via a live stream on the brand’s Facebook Page. The brand is doing similar events with other artists, from ice sculptors to graffiti artists…
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