World’s smallest aquarium.
The world’s smallest aquarium measures 30x24x14mm and holds only 10ml of water. For reference, 5ml is one teaspoon, so the aquarium can only hold two teaspoons worth of water.
Flying the Nest Study – Parents Almost Always Welcome Home ‘Boomerang Sons’
“Boomerang boys” three times more welcome at home than daughters.
Parents are three times more likely to allow their adult sons to return to the family home than daughters, revealed a survey published this week. The “Flying the Nest” study showed that returning sons or “boomerang boys” are considered more obliging house guests than their sisters and that they easily wrap their mothers around their little fingers.
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Study Finds Cellphone Use Tied to Changes in Brain Activity
Researchers from the National Institutes of Health have found that less than an hour of cellphone use can speed up brain activity in the area closest to the phone antenna, raising new questions about the health effects of low levels of radiation emitted from cellphones.
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Alaska State Rep Refuses TSA Grope of Her Mastectomy Scars, Drives Herself Home from Seattle
Sharon Cissna
Alaska State Rep Sharon Cissna, a breast cancer survivor who has had a mastectomy, was barred from flying home to Juneau from Seattle by the TSA when she refused to allow a screener to touch the scars from her operation. She drove home instead. Apparently she is always selected for an invasive “hand screening” because the “irregularities” presented by her prosthesis when viewed through the pornoscanner raise the TSA’s suspicions. As others have observed, the War on Terror is really a War on the Unusual — it’s the systematic erosion of rights for people with nonstandard appearance, health, itineraries, and beliefs, without regard to whether those “irregularities” are correlated with terrorist activity. It’s as though the TSAhas said, “All terrorists are engaged in something unusual, therefore all unusual occurrences should be viewed as potential terrorism.”
Scotch Tape Sculptures
The Big Catch is currently in the lead.
Every year, the company behind Scotch brand plastic tape holds a contest which invites people to create sculptures out of their product. Pictured above is one leading entry called “The Big One”. You can see this and other high-ranked entries and vote for your favorites at the link…
Bury These Comic Books in the Ground, And They’ll Grow Plants
Sprout your own super hero plants.
A company called Sprout Home sells superhero comic books that, if you plant them in the ground, grow herbs. Each is sold in a plastic sleeve in mint condition should you choose not to bury yours…
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Solowheel Reinvents the Wheel with Next-Gen Segway Unicycle
I’m going solo on my Solowheel!
If you can’t afford a Segway, what about half of one? While the two-wheeled personal transporter can set you back by $5,000 or more, a new one-wheel, Segway-inspired model called the Solowheel is due to go on sale for a mere $1,500 in the U.S., starting in March. Impress your friends, work on your balance, and most of all, watch out for bikes and people that still walk.
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The Noob’s Guide to Tumblr
Get rolling on Tumblr!
If you’re new to Tumblr and wondering how to become a POWER USER, this handy guide should get you started. It’s full of general advice as well as handy html tricks to pull off slick moves like reblogging yourself and embedding GIFs the right way.
Before long Topherchris will be reblogging all your posts, you’ll get featured on the radar once a week, and you’ll be up to your neck in Likes.
Robo Dancing Grover
Grooving with Grover!
Before that little red punk Elmo showed up and started scoring all the big interviews and plum assignments, Grover was the top fuzzy monster on Sesame Street. Times change, and any monster will tell you, life out on the Street can be hard. Out-hustled and out-cuted, Grover’s just another monster on the block. That didn’t stop a California Grover fan from making this sweet Dancing Grover Robot…
iGrow – The Latest in Laser Hair Rejuvenation
iGrow
Laser combs? Old news. The latest in laser-based hair rejuvenation is the iGrow, a stylish new wearable device from Apira Science that packs 21 laser diodes and 30 LED lights. (Pics)
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