Brief bursts of exercise are better for the heart and circulation.
Scientists found that a number of brief bursts of exercise were better for your heart and circulation than the equivalent long distance training.
Let Adzookie Turn Your House Into a Billboard and They Will Pay Your Mortgage
Adzookie’s Paint My House Promotion
Adzookie, a free advertising network for mobile devices, said Tuesday that the company will pay your mortgage if it can paint your house with an ad for the service.
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Junk Food as Addictive as Cocaine
Certain foods may be addictive.
Seeing a milkshake can activate the same areas of the brain that light up when an addict sees cocaine, US researchers said.
Jobs Are Back Just Not For the Middle-Aged Worker
Jobs are back. Just not for everybody.
Like many other things in the stutter-step economic recovery, the job market is finally recovering, but progress is uneven and some people are being left out. The latest jobs report, for example, shows that the economy created 216,000 jobs in March, for a total of about 1.9 million new jobs since employment levels bottomed out at the end of 2009. That’s a healthy pace of job growth that will help bring down the uncomfortably high unemployment rate, and, with luck, cement the recovery.
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NASA Makes Longer, Straighter Piezoelectric Nanowires in Microgravity
Microgravity provides nano solutions.
Piezoelectric nanowires are the stuff that make power-generating pants a possibility, and that prodigious potential has drawn the attention of NASA. You see, self-powered spacesuits are awfully attractive to our nation’s space agency, and a few of its finest student researchers have discovered that the current-creating strands of zinc oxide can be made longer and straighter — and therefore more powerful — when freed from gravity’s unrelenting pull. That means nanowires grown in microgravity could lead to higher capacity batteries and the aforementioned juice-generating interstellar garb…
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Jellyfish Lake – Daily Migration Of Millions
Quite a curious collection of jellyfish
Every day, millions of golden jellyfish migrate – no big surprise there. However, you might not expect them to migrate horizontally across a lake. Still, a visit to Jellyfish Lake on Eil Malk, an island in Palau, in the Pacific Ocean, will confirm just that. Yet just how on Earth did these jellyfish get to the lake in the first place?
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Facebook-Infused Job Search Site Finds Listings From Your Social Graph
In The Door searches for jobs in new ways.
How many of your Facebook friends work for companies that are hiring? Chances are you don’t know, but new job search startup In The Door launches Tuesday and plugs into Facebook to surface that information.
In The Door’s premise is simple: Let job seekers use their social graph to find open positions where they might have an inside edge…
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Snaggly Table Made Out Of Computer Junk
Binary Low Table
BRC Designs’s “Binary Low Table” is made out of computer junk; it’s a lovely piece of furniture, but it looks like it’d be prone to snagging and tearing clothes and exposed skin (and it’d be a major pain to dust!)…
Too Lazy To Count Calories? Now You Can Just Take A Picture Of Your Meal
Snap a shot to assess the calories.
Wow. If this app had been pitched to us on the 1st, I would have been sure it was an April Fool’s joke. Coming in a few days later, however, it seems almost genius…
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Study Shows Little Benefit of Bypass Surgery for Heart Failure
New research shows that survival rates are not better than those taking pills to fight risks from high blood pressure and cholesterol.
New research has cast doubt on the benefits of bypass surgery for many patients with very weak hearts. Doctors claim the operation did not improve survival rates for those already taking medicines to control risks like high cholesterol and blood pressure.
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Study: Being a Happy or Sad Drunk All Comes Down to Your Genetic Makeup
Drinking can make you happy or sad depending on your makeup.
Scientists have discovered that some people physically get a buzz from alcohol while others find it makes them depressed. The discovery could explain why some drinkers become angry and upset if they get intoxicated while others become merry and silly.
50,000 Volt Taser Grenade Shocks It’s First Civilian Victim (Video)
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There’s a new Taser in town! Taser International’s 50,000 volt projectile, the Taser Grenade, can incapacitate those who need to be incapacitated at distances of up to 900 feet.
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