Electronic Sports Skullcap Could Reduce Risk of
Serious Injury

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 25 October 2012 11:03:01 AM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

Reebok has announced the development of a electronic skullcap that can measure the force of impacts to the head and reduce the risk of serious head injuries.The wearable impact indicator, to be launched by the sports equipment manufacturer early next year, has been jointly developed by eng

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Memoto The Camera That Makes Lifelogging
Mainstream Selling Fast On Kickstarter

post from Singularity Hub on 25 October 2012 11:02:37 AM. © Singularity Hub

Here comes yet another tool for lifeloggers to catalogue those priceless moments of getting a cup of coffee or commuting to work. Memoto, a small, clip-on device that takes pictures while you live your life, is part of a Kickstarter campaign that crushed its goal on the day it launched. [...]

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The Wonder-Working Bubbles That Physics
Can't Explain

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 25 October 2012 11:01:29 AM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

FROM a distance, it is an idyllic scene. The small boat floats idly, its oars aloft. Sheltered from the sun by a blue-and-white striped awning, passengers busy themselves around a large silver tea-urn.Move a little closer, though, and things don't look - or indeed smell - so rosy. The wate

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TED: Doris Kim Sung: Metal that breathes - Doris
Kim Sung (2012)

post from TEDTalks (video) on 25 October 2012 11:00:28 AM. © TEDTalks (video)

Modern buildings with floor-to-ceiling windows give spectacular views, but they require a lot of energy to cool. Doris Kim Sung works with thermo-bimetals, smart materials that act more like human skin, dynamically and responsively, and can shade a room from sun and self-ventilate.

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_that_breathes.html

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YouTube it!

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 25 October 2012 10:40:16 AM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

We all know how to "Google" something. I can't understand why we are so slow to embrace the verb to "YouTube" a topic. Sure, we get a line item somewhere down the page when we Google something listing Videos for the topic...relatively obscure and only showing only three or four possibilitie

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GTI-yi-yi! Tomicas New Limited Vintage Neo VW
Golf 16V is a Truly International Affair

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 25 October 2012 10:00:00 AM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

Die-cast collecting is international - not only in scope, but in subject matter. Leave it to Tomica of Japan to make the nicest three-inch model of a German car built in the United States that's ever come from their Chinese factory.Read the whole article.

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Male DNA in female brains revisited

post from Top stories on 25 October 2012 09:49:09 AM. © Top stories

?Some women actually have men on the brain? beckoned the headline from the LA Times on September 27, echoing an article in PLoS One describing the discovery of male fetal DNA in the brains of pregnant women.

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Assessing Intelligent Design from a
Communications Perspective

post from Top stories on 25 October 2012 09:33:34 AM. © Top stories

As part of the TAM 2012 Sunday paper presentation series, Ph.D. candidate Christine Shellska explores the social science behind the Discovery Institute and their promotion of intelligent design. With an introduction by James Randi Educational Foundation research fellow Dr. Ray Hall.

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When she says, 'It's not you, it's me,' it really
might be you

Long after women have chosen Mr. Stable over Mr. Sexy, they struggle unconsciously with the decision, according to a new study by UCLA researchers who look at subtle changes in behavior during ovulation.

At their most fertile period, these women are less likely to feel close to their mates and more likely to find fault with them than women mated to more sexually desirable men, the research shows.

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Biology & Aging

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Wanderers Between the Galaxies

The idea of planets outside their normal settings is unsettling. It implies that beyond the stars all around us there may be worlds without suns, dark planets presumably pushed there by gravitational instabilities in their home systems. We?ve looked at[...]

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