Walking and talking dangerous for seniors.
Older people find multi-tasking more difficult than younger ones, researchers have found, so those who “walk and talk” across a road could be putting themselves at greater risk.
Google Recruits Scientists to Use New Media to Tackle Climate Skeptics
In an effort to help improve communication regarding global warming issues and to counter the rampant ‘noise’ made by fossil fuel industry-funded climate skepticism, Google’s philanthropy arm has launched a new program focused on bringing together scientists, communications experts, and the world of social media. Google has tapped 21 top climate researchers to be fellows on the project, and they plan on mapping out a way to get accurate, scientifically sound information on climate to the masses.
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Brilliant Board Game Idea: The Waxing Game
The Glaze Brothers have a great idea for a board game. The Waxing Game is quite straighforward. A Candy Land-like board is filled with body parts. Roll the die and move your piece forward. From whichever location you land on, you must have your body hair ripped off. What a pleasant way to spend a quiet evening!
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Tsunami Caught on Dashboard Camera as it Hits Car
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Raw, actual footage from a dashboard camera driving along a beach road as the tsunami hit Japan. You can see the wave hitting the windshield and car being carried away in the wave.
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Crazy Antique Fitness Equipment
Here’s a little something for the people who list fitness goals as part of their New years resolution; a glance back at some antique fitness equipment.
Groupon Could Go From $0 to $25 Billion Valuation
Less than three years after its founding, bankers are telling Groupon it could IPO at an astounding $25 billion valuation — greater than Google’s valuation when it first hit the public markets. We took a look at the lightning fast right that took Groupon to its current valuations.
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10 Everyday Fruits and Vegetables that are Poisonous
Even apples have a poisonous element.
Most of us think that eating fruits and vegetables can be nothing but healthy but there are hidden dangers in many common foods. Poisons that make you sick, paralyze and even kill you lurk behind some of our favorites…
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Naval Sonar Exercises Linked to Whale Strandings
Whales are affected by Naval Sonar Exercises.
Scientists have long been aware of a link between naval sonar exercises and unusual mass strandings of beaked whales. Evidence of such a link triggered a series of lawsuits in which environmental groups sued the U.S. Navy to limit sonar exercises to reduce risk to whales. In 2008, this conflict rose to the level of the US Supreme Court which had to balance potential threat to whales from sonar against the military risk posed by naval forces inadequately trained to use sonar to detect enemy submarines. The court ruled that the Navy could continue training, but that it was essential for the Navy to develop better methods to protect the whales.
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Biggest Security Threats on Facebook
Facebook is the new frontier for fraud.
Forget those phishing emails that attempt to get your credit card or bank sign-in information. When crooks want to know how to get into your bank account, they post a message on Facebook. These messages appear so innocuous and so appropriate in the Facebook setting that you are likely to not only get conned, but pass on the scam.
Computer Vision Syndrome Sweeping the Country
The eyes have it – Computer Vision Syndrome!
If you find yourself looking in the mirror at the end of a long day only to see the bloodshot eyes of a crackhead staring back at you, it may be because you are addicted to something —your digital devices.
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Brilliant Forced Perspective Photography – Part 2
Forced perspective photography
You don’t always have to use Photoshop to create optical illusions in your photographs. With a technique called forced perspective you can create illusions that make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. It just takes a little creativity with the placement of the subjects in the shot and the camera angle.
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Shock Wave Engine Could Make Hybrid Cars More Fuel Efficient
Wave rotor motor
Piston engines are big, heavy, dirty, complicated, and expensive pieces of machinery that have been around for a century. It’s about time for something better, and one option could be wave disk engines, which are small, light, clean, simple, and cheap pieces of machinery that aren’t around yet. But they’re close.
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