The new $1.35 million Pagani Huayra.
With most cars you can simply get in, start the engine, and drive off. But with the new $1.35 million Pagani Huayra, you’d better add checking the flap positions to your pre-drive checklist.
Living Within 100 Yards of Gas Stations Can be Bad for Your Health
Experts say that a ‘minimum’ distance of 50 yards should be maintained between petrol stations and housing.
Living within 100 yards of petrol stations can damage your health, according to a new study. Researchers found that air in the immediate vicinity of garages is often polluted and can harm local residents.
The Race is On to Grab Custom Domain Name Suffixes
The price tag to apply for a custom domain name suffix is only $185,000.
The pillar of the basic Web address – the trusty .com domain – is about to face vast new competition that will dramatically transform the Web as we know it. New Web sites, with more subject-specific, sometimes controversial suffixes, will soon populate the online galaxy, such as .eco, .love, .god, .sport, .gay or .kurd.
Top 10 Photos of the Week
Today’s couch potatoes have a way of turning every disaster into a spectator sport
“I saw the movie, ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ and I was surprised because I didn’t see any tigers or dragons. And then I realised why: they’re crouching and hidden.” – – Steve Martin
Smile, Darn Ya, Smile!
A great smile at a certain price.
Want your child to turn that frown upside down? By any means necessary? This feels like it belongs on Arrested Development, alongside the injury-inducing cornballer, but amazingly enough it’s areal thing. And there’s only a “slight twitch side effect!” Hooray for science!
The World’s First Rocking Piano
A Piano that plays from a whole new angle.
Musicians at Riverside College have been demonstrating their belief that the piano rocks – literally.
The world’s first rocking piano was recently donated to the college and can be found at the Cronton campus…
AOL To Buy Huffington Post For $315 million
“The Huffington Post has already been growing at a prodigious rate. But my New Year’s
resolution for 2011 was to take HuffPost to the next level — not just incrementally,
but exponentially,” Arianna Huffington wrote of the deal.
Online company AOL Inc. is buying online news hub Huffington Post in a $315 million deal that represents a bold bet on the future of online news.
The deal announced early Monday puts a high-profile exclamation point on a series of acquisitions and strategic moves engineered by AOL CEO Tim Armstrong in an effort to reshape a struggling Internet icon. AOL was once the king of dial-up online access known for its ubiquitous CD-ROMs and “You’ve got mail” greeting in its inboxes.
Perhaps just as important as picking up a news site that ranks as one of the top 10 current events and global news destinations, AOL will be adding Huffington Post co-founder and media star Arianna Huffington to its management team as part of the deal…
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Clapping Music
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Angie Dickinson and Lee Marvin “perform” Steve Reich’s Clapping Music. This is mesmerizing and really shows off the talents of clapping music in a whole new format.
European Parliament Backs Tough Electronic Waste Recycling Targets
Electronics Waste is a hot issue.
This week the European Parliament backed a proposal to re-write the WEEE directive. WEEE stands for Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment, and the directive sets requirements for the end-of-life management in the growing electrical and electronic product sector. The re-write attempts to address wide disparities in the success of the existing directive, which requires collection of 4kg/person of WEEE. Currently, Sweden tops the ranking of European nations with 16 kg per person of WEEE collected, while Italy collects only 1 kg per person. The proposed directive attempts to level the playing field for WEEE as well; so that the Italians could satisfy the directive if it is shown that Swedish people purchase 16 times more EEE than Italians. Although this is a stretch, it is only fair that targets be set in relation to actual consumer behavior.
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One in Nine Adults Worldwide are Obese
Half a billion adults are obese worldwide.
More than half a billion adults are clinically obese in a near-doubling of the numbers of dangerously overweight adults since 1980s , doctors warned on Friday . Nearly one in nine of all adults — are clinically obese, according to research by a team from Imperial College London , Harvard and the World Health Organisation (WHO ).
Potential Cure Found for Type I Diabetes
Researchers find possible cure for Type I diabetes.
Researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center have found that suppressing a single hormone may eliminate the need for insulin injections and may make the condition completely asymptomatic.
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