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Colorblind Boy Enjoys Colourful Flowers for First Time Using Enchroma Glasses

2015-09-03T19:55:00.000+02:00

Researchers use DNA strands to create nanobot computer inside living animal

2014-05-24T21:04:00.003+02:00

http://phys.org/news/2014-04-dna-strands-nanobot-animal.html#jCp

Semantics

2014-05-24T21:03:00.000+02:00

Semantics (from Ancient Greek: σημαντικός sēmantikós, "significant")^[1]^[2] is the study of meaning. It focuses on the relation between signifiers, like words, phrases, signs, and symbols, and what they stand for, their denotation. Linguistic semantics is the study of meaning that is used for understanding human expression through language. Other forms of semantics include the semantics of programming languages, formal logics, and semiotics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantics

The Safer Cigarette

2014-05-24T21:02:00.003+02:00

I found the most fascinating article. The article is about the elevated risk of lung cancer in American men compared to Japanese men. It is interesting article because there is a higher smoking prevalence in Japanese men, but they have a lower risk of lung cancer compared to American men.
First thing the article addresses is genetics; perhaps Caucasians are genetically disposed to lung cancer compared to the Japanese men. This theory was wrong because rates of Japanese born Americans and Japanese immigrants were the same as American men, so genetics is not the main factor. The mean duration of smoking for the American and Japanese men was the same. The next thing that was evaluated was the age of smoking of the American and Japanese men...

http://islaslab.blogspot.nl/2011/05/safer-cigarette.html

This is what the Internet actually looks like

2014-05-24T21:01:00.000+02:00

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/04/tech/gallery/internet-undersea-cables/index.html?hpt=hp_c3

Historical Photos In Color

2014-05-24T21:00:00.000+02:00

Is it possible to be dyslexic in Chinese?

2014-05-24T20:59:00.001+02:00

Dear Cecil:

Is it possible to be dyslexic in Chinese? Surely someone with dyslexia wouldn't be likely to misconstrue a word's meaning if that word were represented as a distinctive symbol as in Chinese, right? I mean, if you were to show a dyslexic a picture of a house, that person would still easily recognize it, even though he might have trouble deciphering the written word. Or am I totally in the dark about dyslexia?

— Rudy, Vallejo, California PS: Is it true that the order of letters in a word is unimportant in reading, aside from the placemen

...

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2591/is-it-possible-to-be-dyslexic-in-chinese

Sea Sapphire

2014-05-24T20:58:00.002+02:00

Time-lapse compilation of thunderstorms,the milkyway and northern lights

2014-05-24T20:56:00.002+02:00

Robotic Drum Prosthesis Project

2014-05-24T20:55:00.002+02:00

Trick Roping Skills

2014-05-24T20:53:00.003+02:00

Pennsylvania Judge Sentenced To 28 Years In Prison For Selling Teens To Prisons

2014-05-24T20:53:00.000+02:00

http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshh5dDQ5QKrTQ4s1es3

Meanwhile in Colombia...

2014-05-24T20:50:00.002+02:00

People Can Draw Energy From Other People The Same Way Plants Do

2014-05-24T20:49:00.001+02:00

A biological research team at Bielefeld University has made a groundbreaking discovery showing that plants can draw an alternative source of energy from other plants. This finding could also have a major impact on the future of bioenergy eventually providing the evidence to show that people draw energy from others in much the same way.

Members of Professor Dr. Olaf Kruse’s biological research team have confirmed for the first time that a plant, the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, not only engages in photosynthesis, but also has an alternative source of energy: it can draw it from other plants. The research findings were released this week in the online journal Nature Communications published by the renowned journal Nature.

http://themindunleashed.org/2014/03/people-can-draw-energy-people-way-plants.html

Study Shows We Work Harder If We’re Given Chocolate

2014-05-24T20:46:00.000+02:00

“Under scientifically controlled conditions, making workers happier really pays off,” said Professor Andrew Oswald, who led the research team with Dr. Eugenio Proto and Dr. Daniel Sgroi from the Department of Economics.

Sgroi added: “The driving force seems to be that happier workers use the time they have more effectively, increasing the pace at which they can work without sacrificing quality.”

http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/study-shows-we-work-harder-if-our-boss-gives-us-chocolate/

Future Weapons - EMP Bomb

2014-05-24T20:44:00.002+02:00

22 Photos That Prove Why Babies Need Pets

2014-05-24T20:43:00.002+02:00

http://hopeshared.com/22-photos-that-prove-babies-need-pets-number-17-especially/

WARKAWATER

2014-05-24T20:41:00.002+02:00

AccuVein Vein Illumination

2014-05-24T20:40:00.002+02:00

Clairvius Narcisse

2014-05-24T20:38:00.003+02:00

Clairvius Narcisse (born c. 1922) is a Haitian man said to have been turned into a living zombie by a combination of drugs. After investigating reports of "zombies" (including Narcisse and a handful of others), researchers believed that Narcisse received a dose of chemical mixture containing tetrodotoxin (pufferfish venom) and bufotoxin (toad venom) to induce a coma which mimicked the appearance of death. He was then allowed to return to his home where he collapsed, "died", and was buried. The Canadian ethnobotanist Wade Davis, who did the research on tetrodotoxin ^[1] explains how this would have been done. The bokor (sorcerer) would have given Narcisse a powder containing the tetrodotoxin through abraded skin. Narcisse fell into a comatose state, closely resembling death, which resulted in his live burial.^[2] His body was then recovered and he was given doses of Datura stramonium to create a compliant zombie-like state and set to work on a plantation. After two years, the plantation owner died and Narcisse simply walked away to freedom.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clairvius_Narcisse

Robotic arm catches objects on the fly

2014-05-24T20:36:00.002+02:00

Cat saves kid

2014-05-24T20:35:00.000+02:00

A Breakthrough in Upper-Limb Prosthetics

2014-05-24T20:34:00.003+02:00

http://betterthanenglish.com/

2014-05-24T20:34:00.000+02:00

http://betterthanenglish.com/

Kangal Dogs

2014-05-24T20:32:00.003+02:00