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Chinese Develop Gait-Biometrics Surveillance

February 12, 2011

Another way to be under surveillance.

A confidential United States embassy dispatch released by Wikileaks provides details about a new technology developed by the Chinese Academy of Science to identify people by their gait.

The technology is designed to be deployed beneath existent flooring. From there it measures pedestrian pace and walking pressure to create a unique biometrics profile which can be used to identify and track the movements of individuals without their knowledge…

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Architecture, Art, Breakthrough Thinking, Globalism, New Viewpoints

The Water-Scraper Habitat

February 12, 2011

Visions of water dwellings.

Taking advantage of the 71% of the Earth covered in water, the “Water-Scraper” is a partially submerged, self-contained habitat. A combination of tidal, solar and wind sources generate power for the floating behemoth while garden acreage just above the water line produces food for the structure’s inhabitants.

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Analysis, Science & Technology News, Space

‘Doomsday’ Asteroid Could Crash Into Earth on April 13, 2036

February 11, 2011

Russian scientists held a meeting 14 months ago to look at launching an operation to knock the Apophis asteroid off course

An asteroid travelling at 23,000mph could crash into Earth on April 13, 2036 killing millions and causing global chaos, scientists claim. In a plot line taken straight from a science-fiction film, astronomers in Russia are predicting that the 300-yard-wide Apophis will slam into the planet in 25 years’ time.

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Analysis, New Discoveries, Science & Technology News

Amazing Discovery – Glass Melts When it Gets Ultracold

March 4, 2013

Quantum fluctuations may melt glass when it gets too cold.

Anyone who’s seen enough old Sesame Street episodes or been to enough Renaissance Fairs knows that when glass gets hot enough, it turns to liquid. Applied heat pumps energy into the solid pieces of glass, getting their molecules jiggling. As the heat dissipates, the glass becomes cool and solidifies again.

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Health & Fitness, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Hospitals Shifting From Smoke-Free to Smoker-Free Workplaces

February 11, 2011

Smoking habit could cost you your job if you work at a hospital.

Smokers now face another risk from their habit: it could cost them a shot at a job. More hospitals and medical businesses in many states are adopting strict policies that make smoking a reason to turn away job applicants, saying they want to increase worker productivity, reduce health care costs and encourage healthier living.

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Brain, New Inventions, Science & Technology News

‘Thinking Cap’ Stimulates Creativity in the Brain

February 11, 2011

Professor Allan Snyder displays a “thinking cap” (R) on a glass head at the University of Sydney

If you, on your lesser days, could reach for a thinking cap to make you a little brainier, what would you expect?

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Art, Breakthrough Thinking, Crazy Stuff, Health & Fitness, Human Behavior, New Discoveries, New Inventions

Electric Beauty Lift High Nose

February 11, 2011

Am I beautiful yet?

Want to lift your nose? Now you can with the Electric Beauty Lift High Nose.

Push up that nose of yours to create the perfect profile with this handy Beauty Lift High Nose, a beauty gadget that applies gentle electric vibrations from the bottom, side and front. Just slip it on and turn on the switch on the front of the frame…

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Animals, Breakthrough Thinking, Fashion, Food, Historical Perspectives, Human Behavior

Restaurant Makes Handbags From The Cow You Eat

February 11, 2011

Fashion Directly From Your Food

Forget about plunking down thousands of dollars and putting your name on a yearlong waiting list – to score New York’s latest “it” bag, you’re encouraged to eat the cow it comes from first. Sold exclusively at the Williamsburg restaurant Marlow & Sons, Breton tote bags boast supple leather and a price tag that ranges from $300 to $400.

But buying one isn’t so easy…

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EPA’s Budget To Be Slashed

February 11, 2011

77% of Americans support the EPA

Okay, okay, we get it. House Republicans don’t like the idea of trying to reign in pollution. I mean really don’t like it. Many of them already claimed that climate change wasn’t real on the campaign trail, and said they’d fight climate legislation. Then, the powerful chairman of the House Energy Committee, Fred Upton (R-MI), has already sponsored a bill designed to prevent the EPA from enforcing the Clean Air Act, claiming it would kill jobs and whatnot. Now, House Republicans have released their vaunted plan for massive federal spending cuts. At the top of the list? The EPA.

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Breakthrough Thinking, Food, Great New Product, Latest Trend, New Discoveries, New Inventions

Beer Marshmallows

February 11, 2011

What could be better than beer flavored marshmallows?

Mmm… beer marshmallows. My inner Homer Simpson is doing cartwheels right now. You know, while he can. Before I get my hands on these things of beauty, spawned by some mad food genius, and just totally let myself go. I mean I have will power and everything, but come on!

The question is, why hasn’t someone thought of this before now?

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Analysis, Current Events, Historical Perspectives, Latest News, New Discoveries

NASA Finds Earth’s Cirrus-Like Ice Clouds on Saturn’s Moon Titan

February 11, 2011

Cloudy with a chance of…

Experts at NASA have sighted thin, wispy clouds of ice particles similar to Earth’s cirrus clouds on one of Saturn’s moons, Titan.

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Art, Science & Technology News

‘Nothing is Impossible’ – World’s Smallest Engraving on the Edge of a Razor Blade

February 10, 2011

The world’s smallest engraving by human hand has been completed on the edge of a razor blade.

Graham Short etched the motto “Nothing is impossible” which measures just a tenth of a millimetre. The letters are invisible to the naked eye, and can only be read with a medical microscope at 400 times magnification.

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