I’m a big fan of roundabouts, they’ve allways seemed to me to improve traffic flow no end and reduce driver frustration. It turns out I was right!
Transportation research finds roundabouts are the way to go for drivers of any age.
Swissotel hotels and restaurants has put this online. Useful!
The Ultimate Guide to Worldwide Etiquette.
They have managed to grow rat and human cells over a scaffolding of nanowires and transistors wrapped in collagen. So far they use the wiring to monitor data, such as the contractions of the cells, but it’s imaginable that they will use it to send impulses to the cells too.
Harvard creates cyborg flesh that’s half man, half machine | ExtremeTech.
It looks like English and German made it to Europe starting in Anatolya, Turkey. Using a method used to track the spread of virusses strong evidence was found that the spread of language and genetic markers matched the spread from Turkey.
Mapping the Origins and Expansion of the Indo-European Language Family.
This is an incredible story of a commercial neuroscience application being used to analyse images at the rate of 20 per second in order to pre screen them by sorting the chaff from the wheat. The brain can regonise and analyse images at that rate and spikes in electrical activity 300 milliseconds after seeing the images (the P300 response) indicate whether the images contain what you’re looking for.
From Bench to Bunker – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education.
These glasses can show where your veins run, and shade your hemoglobin levels to show the affective state a person is in.
These Awesome Glasses Will Make Your Veins Glow So Nurses Won't Have to Keep Stabbing You.
It turns out that most people can’t tell the difference in sound quality above 160 kbps. So having a raw CD doesn’t make the sound ‘better’.
Concluding the Great MP3 Bitrate Experiment.
Here is a theory that says that some fraud perpetrators are not actually evil, but they don’t see that they are being evil, depending on the frame of mind they are put into.
Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things : NPR.
It turns out that not only is it a massive privacy invasion, but has a 20% (!!) error rate. Besides that it’s useless, because no border guard system can read the fingerprints on the passport.
Tweede Kamer wil af van vingerafdruk in paspoort – update | Webwereld.
Eating chocolate often makes you thin!
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 form of a cream or ointment, is available.
Scientists Have Worked Out How to Stop You Going Bald.
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 |.
This site has around 2800 videos teaching you all kinds of subjects, allowing you to learn about almost everything for free as well as practice excercises. It’s quite impressive.
Want to think outside the box? Try actually thinking outside of a box. In a study to be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, researchers had students think up solutions to problems while acting out various metaphors about creative thinking and found that the instructions actually worked.
via To 'think outside the box', think outside the box.
They can use the maths to predict fairly well when and where a serial killer will strike again.
Scientists Uncover The Mathematics Of Serial Killers – Forbes.
Being able to breathe is a big issue and unfortunately the pollution levels in our cities is so high that going out for a run or cycling is more harmful than the health benefits.
So to counter this, there are a few filters available.
Pollution China has a nice article on how to choose the right facemask from Respro.
This is the sport mask, but there are many different products offering different protections and comforts.
Respro: Sports & Leisure – Cycling – Sportsta Mask.
Sanspira also offers nasal filters which are much much smaller but obviously don’t offer much in the way of filtration when breathing through the mouth. here
This running technique has helped people become the fastest runners in the world and gets rid of injuries. It’s based on landing on the balls of your feet, not heels.
The Once and Future Way to Run – NYTimes.com.
An interesting article who’s main premise is that feminists thought being a man was better because they were all over the place in top jobs, but forgot that men were also all over the bottom of society (in jail, being junkies, etc). Now there’s a load of anti-man / men are worse than women literature out because women are comparing themselves to the men at the bottom of the food chain.
Is There Anything Good About Men.
Het Hof geeft preciseringen over de aansprakelijkheid van ondernemingen die op internet een elektronische marktplaats beheren voor de door hun gebruikers gepleegde merkinbreuken De nationale rechter moet deze ondernemingen kunnen gelasten om niet alleen maatregelen te nemen om de inbreuken op de intellectuele-eigendomsrechten te doen eindigen, maar ook om nieuwe inbreuken van die aard te voorkomen eBay exploiteert een wereldwijde elektronische marktplaats op internet waar particulieren en ondernemingen een breed assortiment goederen en diensten kunnen kopen en verkopen.
via Arrest in zaak C-324/09 L’Oréal e.a. / eBay.