Owners of analog TV sets can send off their application for a free converter box to prepare for the digital switch over that will happen in February 2009. Two coupons will be sent to each person who applies, worth $40 off a digital converter box each.
Farmers in Nebraska and the Dakotas brought the U.S. closer to becoming a biofuel economy, planting huge tracts of land for the first time with switchgrass and proving that it can deliver more than five times more energy than it takes to grow it.
TomTom, a maker of personal navigation devices, said Wednesday that customers can now use Google’s mapping service to find business addresses and then transfer them via a computer to a TomTom gadget.
It has been reported that Microsoft wants to acquire computer peripherals maker Logitech for $8 billion. The firm’s co-founder doesn’t want to sell. He only owns 6% of shares, but the deal could still be a problem with antitrust regulators.
Many sugar-free chewing gums contain a sweetener called sorbitol. Sorbitol is a laxative which is poorly absorbed by the small intestine. Two patients had chronic diarrhea, abdominal pain and dangerously excessive weight loss. They chewed too much gum.
I just came across this great Dove commercial that had been mentioned by some people when I was at the Future of Online Advertising Conference. It was part of a viral campaign where you see how a model is made up and then air-brushed in time-lapsed photography. It was shown as an example of a successful campaign, and it was geared at inspiring girls and lifting self-esteem through the Campaign For Real Beauty.
The appendix “acts as a good safe house for bacteria,” said Duke surgery professor Bill Parker. If we lose our good bacteria in the digestive tract it can start it can start it back up. But in such a clean society it doesn’t get much use.
The way fresh water is supplied to disaster-hit regions could be revolutionized after a businessman invented a $400 bottle that makes foul-smelling water drinkable in seconds.
Michael Pritchard hopes that the bottle could be a life-saver for refugees in disaster regions where access to clean drinking water is vital. Four hours after Mr Pritchard launched his new “Life Saver” bottle at the DESI defense show in London Wednesday, he sold out his entire 1,000 stock.
The bottles, which can distill either 4,000 liters or 6,000 liters without changing the filter, will have huge benefits for soldiers who hate drinking iodine-flavored water.
Conventional filters can cut out bacteria measuring more than 200 nanometers but not viruses, which typically are 25 nanometers long. The Life Saver bottle can clean up any water using a filter that cuts out anything longer than 15 nanometers, which means that viruses can be filtered out without the use of chemicals.
A series of veterinary and toxicology studies, dating to the mid-1990s, stated that chip implants had “induced” malignant tumors in some lab mice and rats. Ouch. Still not conclusive evidence.
An interesting report. But it’s hard to tell what house a FiOS connection is linked to. This is far from reliable information. Though they are installing FiOS on my block finally. :)
Antibacterial soaps show no health benefits over plain soaps and, in fact, may render some common antibiotics less effective, says a University of Michigan public health professor.
In a bid to improve browser security, both within Firefox and among competing browsers, the Mozilla Foundation Thursday announced several open-source security testing tools, in addition to several security enhancements coming with Firefox 3, scheduled for
Opera Software found and patched what it’s calling a “highly severe” bug in its flagship browser, using a security tool released by its competitor, Mozilla.
MIT scientists and colleagues have found a way to create in the lab large amounts of cancer stem cells, or cells that can initiate tumors. Labs could easily grow them for use in experiments.
Tim Donaghy started making NBA bets four years ago, and he didn’t hesitate to wager on games he worked. Speaking in code during telephone calls, he tipped off high-stakes gamblers with inside information and recommended which teams to bet on.
Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup is the original designer and implementer of the C++ Programming Language. Here he speaks about C++0x. I could have seen him speak at Google NYC a few weeks ago, but decided to gamble instead.
Can’t they ever learn? It’s just unacceptable to fly with such high risk. Foam and ice fall off all the time, and that’s just wrong in this age of science.
Not only do bones produce a protein hormone, osteocalcin, that regulates bone formation, but this hormone also protects against obesity and glucose intolerance by increasing proliferation of pancreatic beta cells and their subsequent secretion of insulin.
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