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Eating chocolate often makes you thin! Arch Intern Med — Association Between More Frequent Chocolate Consumption and Lower Body Mass Index, March 26, 2012, Golomb et al. 172 6: 519.
Because of all the problems associated with carrying firearms or other weaponry into ports, private security firms convert barges into floating armories in international waters where no one will bother them. APNewsBreak: Piracy Fighters Use Floating Armories : NPR.
Because there is nothing wrong with data mining innocent civilians is there? What do you mean, surveillance society? Feds to Keep Info on Americans With No Terror Ties | Military.com.
Some go up to 30 million miles an hour! Runaway planets zoom at a fraction of light speed.
tissue in bald areas has three times the concentration of a fatty compound called Prostaglandin—PGD2 to its buddies. The research is published in Science Transnational Medicine. Fortunately, there are already 10 drugs available that can block the receptor that allows PGD2 to work—which means it shouldn’t be too long before a baldness treatment, in the Read more about Scientists Have Worked Out How to Stop You Going Bald[…]
In the US of course. And of course, if you say “no” you don’t get a job. As an alternative they want you to friend a HR worker. Aside from a bizarre wish to pry their noses into people’s private lives, the US government should put a stop to this. Job seekers getting asked for Read more about Job seekers getting asked for Facebook passwords[…]
All of Einstein’s notes and papers scanned and collected in one place for your perusal. Einstein Archives Online.
CUPERTINO, Calif. – March 19, 2012 – Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) has become the first hard drive maker to achieve the milestone storage density of 1 terabit (1 trillion bits) per square inch, producing a demonstration of the technology that promises to double the storage capacity of today’s hard drives upon its introduction later this decade and Read more about Seagate Reaches 1 Terabit Per Square Inch Milestone In Hard Drive Storage – 60TB drives![…]
Basically it comes down to implementing full disk encryption, creating an encrypted volume inside this with an easy password and a hidden encrypted volume with a hard password which people won’t bother to find. Then installing a tracker to find your laptop back if it gets stolen. Three steps to properly protect your personal data Read more about Three steps to properly protect your personal data[…]
An interesting analysis and list of sources of how the music industry inflates their damages claims beyond wild belief. TED Blog | The numbers behind the Copyright Math.
The innovative CaddyTrek automated golf caddy from FTR Systems is here! Using a pocket-sized sensor, the CaddyTrek will follow in your footsteps and avoid obstacles with ease. The Caddytrek is compact and lightweight, so it’s a breeze to unfold and refold it with only one person. Caddytrek | The first automated golf caddy, Caddytrek will Read more about Caddytrek | The first automated golf caddy[…]
This thing replaces the wheelchair entirely. It’s Turkish engineering and costs $15,000. It allows wheelchair users a whole new amount of freedom. What is Tek RMD from Tek RMC on Vimeo. Tek RMD – Robotic Mobilization Device |.
Hardware hacker rigs up VR for Skyrim • reghardware.
Wow! A fan built huge version of Wing Commander is coming out very very soon. Looks awesome, it’s built on the Freespace 2 engine, so it should run on almost all computers. This will be a time sink! Gnome's Lair: Wing Commander Saga – Preview & Interview.
Since 2000 the US has cracked down hard on cryptography information sharing and it’s hard to find any information on it since around 2001. There are still a few good sources around. Piracy.com: International Cryptography Freedom. Cryptography links outside of North America C4I.org strong crypto links Treachery Unlimited Shmoo Speak Freely encrypted VOIP utopia hacktic Read more about International Cryptography Freedom[…]
Gopher was the betamax of the vhs www. It was used by the military and universities and there are still a few gopher servers out there. http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?gopher://gopher.floodgap.com:70/1/ http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?gopher://gopher.floodgap.com:70/1/world http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?ss=gopher%3A%2F%2Fgopher.floodgap.com%3A70%2F7%2Fv2%2Fvishnu&sq=military gopher://gopher.meulie.net/1/textfiles/magazines/ gopher://www.redhill.net.nz/1/us-mil-historic gopher://sdf.lonestar.org/
$1B of TSA Nude Body Scanners Made Worthless By Blog — How Anyone Can Get Anything Past The Scanners « TSA Out of Our Pants!.
Display Changer changes the display resolution, runs a program, then restores the original settings. It can also change the resolution permanently and rearrange the monitors in a multiple-monitor setup. This is useful for games and home theater computers. I originally wrote this application for my children because they had programs that required 640×480 with 256 Read more about Display Changer[…]
Unlike conventional flat solar cells, Sphelar® cell takes on a spherical shape, which makes it capable of power generation with greater efficiency. This tiny solar cell, measuring a mere 1-2 mm across, holds huge potential for smart and green society. Spherical Micro Solar Cells | Products | Kyosemi Corporation.
The gun forms vortex rings by forcing air or some other gas at high velocity down the gun’s cylinder. The ring forms when the friction of the cylinder wall causes a thin layer of the gas to roll forward on itself like a donut. Imagine a tornado formed into a donut shape. The ring revolves Read more about Vortex Ring Gun fires gas at 90 mph[…]
Unsubscribr takes a new approach to cleaning out your inbox. It scans your email for bulk and junk mail messages. It then allows you to unsubscribe from those messages quickly and easily. No more hunting for tiny, hidden unsubscribe links. Most of the time we can quickly unsubscribe you with a single click. via Unsubscribr Read more about Unsubscribr | Easily unsubscribe from junk and bulk email[…]
From the start of March, the new Citizens’ Initiative Act will come into force. According to the new law, a required minimum of 50,000 citizens of voting age can launch a bill that Parliament then has to process. On the Open Ministry website, anyone can present an idea for a law initiative. If the idea Read more about Open Ministry: Finnish crowd sourced lawmaking[…]
You can put the phone in the tablet, allowing you to display the phone screen on the tablet. Because there are 2 batteries, they can charge each other. It comes with a pen, which you can use as the headset. ‧Enlarge your screen size any time you need to ‧Seamless transition of applications between pad Read more about ASUS Padfone, tablet and smartphone in one[…]
This report concludes that ACTA’s harm greatly exceeds its potential benefits. Given ACTA’s corrosive effect on transparency in international negotiations, the damage to international intellectual property institutions, the exclusion of the majority of the developing world from the ambit of the agreement, the potentially dangerous substantive provisions, and the uncertain benefits in countering counterfeiting, there Read more about Assessing ACTA: Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law[…]
Japanese Air Danshin Systems has come up with a system that levitates houses on a 3cm layer of pressurised air during an earthquake. They claim the system is one third of the price of existing anti-earthquake systems and will be installed in 88 houses across Japan. Japanese Levitating House System Could Protect Homes From Earthquakes Read more about Earthquake protection through levitating houses[…]