One of the greatest geniuses of our time.
Nikola Tesla was born in Croatia on July 10, 1856, which is 155 years ago today. It’s a good day to take a little time and find out more about this extraordinary man…
Will you flunk your social media background check?
Will your social media habits impact future employment?
Your next job application could require a social media background check. Odds are, you have no clue what that means. Nobody does. It’s new and scary and probably scours the Web for pictures of you puking on the beach.
But screw speculation. We wanted to know. So Gizmodo ran background checks on six of their employees.
Here’s what they found, and why you should both freak out about and embrace it…
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New nicotine inhaler: Is it a safer alternative to cigarettes?
Alex Hearn’s nicotine inhaler
There are thousands of ex-smokers who haven given up their habit, only to feel the yearning for the euphoric effects of nicotine. And there are the smokers who refuse to listen to reason and continue the habit saying, “Death is inevitable -whether by cigarette or a car-it make no difference.” Continue reading… “New nicotine inhaler: Is it a safer alternative to cigarettes?”
Ban on the incandescent light bulb would save consumers $12.5 billion by 2020
The average household’s energy costs would be cut by 7% or $85 every year.
Making it’s way through the U.S. Congress is a bill that would block certain provisions from a 2007 energy law signed by George W. Bush that “effectively bans the 100-watt incandescent bulb next year and other versions subsequently”. The law simply mandates that bulbs need to be 30% more energy efficient, an improvement that could have great economic and environmental benefits.
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Teenage girls’ junk food diet could lead to health problems later in life
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)