Car crashes are the leading cause of death worldwide.
The leading cause of death worldwide is car crashes and mechanical engineers are working to develop intelligent onboard transportation systems that can prevent crashes.
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Washington, DC tops the list of the best city for families.
You always want the best for your family, and that includes great schools, affordable homes, low crime rates, plenty of jobs, and lots of parks. So here is this years list of the top 10 best places for families.
Stop that whining!
You were right if you’ve ever thought that listening to your child whine was worse than having a buzz saw cut wood inside your house.
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More than a third of the kids has severe food allergies.
Food allergies affect one in 12 kids in the United States, according to new findings based on an online survey.
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The new website suffixes should start appearing in 2012.
Icann, the internet naming board, has decided to allow the number of internet “domains” to expand enormously in one of the biggest changes ever to the internet’s method of naming sites.
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Keeping your head cool could help you sleep better.
Are you kept awake on hot, summer nights? There’s a simple cure – keep a cool head! Insomnia is associated with increased metabolism in the brain’s frontal cortex, and the metabolism can be reduced by literally cooling that part of the brain, via regional cerebral hypothermia, according to research from the Sleep Neuroimaging Research Program at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
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Scientists create steak from poop.
Japanese scientists have found a way to create artificial meat from sewage containing human feces. (Video)
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Sex in a vehicle is the most exciting place Americans say they have had sex.
Condom maker, Trojan, released the U.S. Sex Census national survey that found that 48% of Americans say “the most exciting place (they) have had sex ” is in a car.
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An in-bred mouse
“‘Always’ and ‘never’ are two words you should always remember never to use.” – – Wendell Johnson
If you could write a fortune what would it say?
Have you ever aspired to be a fortune cookie writer? Most of us who ever received a lame fortune have contemplated it for a short time. However, there aren’t many of these positions available. Donald Lau is the vice-president of Wonton Food, Inc. in Queens, New York. In addition to his financial work, he has written many cookie fortunes…
Solar power just got a boost.
Google isn’t the only one investing in solar power. The U.S. Department of Energy has just announced new conditional loan guarantees that should inject about $2 billion into two large-scale solar thermal projects…
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Our perspectives keep changing.
One aspect of the Egyptian uprising (among the others, most ongoing) that was overpowered by the wild acclamation of social media is something that has been quietly but powerfully changing societal norms over the last decade. It is simply the inclusion, on almost every mobile phone sold, of a digital camera. When 90% of the active population can, at any time, record an event they are witness to, and transmit it to the rest of the world instantly, many rules begin to change.
It’s not new, of course: “citizen journalism” has a long history before mobiles were prevalent, and the growing trend of “you report”-style news and things like Twitter streams in live reporting are as plain as the lens on your phone…