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Have you ever felt like you were being watched, but kept your mouth shut for fear of being committed to a psychiatric hospital? Chinemerem Eze suspected that she was being spied upon and reported this to her school, Brooklyn College, in December of 2008. Instead of investigating, the school’s...
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The answer is yes! According to a British study. You might remember from last year’s H1N1 media crash course on microbes and viruses, that our little friends can be quite fun, and may cause vomiting, diarrhea and other ailments. Bacteria can also carry viruses like the common flu, or...
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A Japanese company has recently developed The Next Big Thing in personal hygiene: The portable bidet. For the working man or woman on the go, the washlet delivers a steady stream of water for twenty-three seconds and fits in your overnight bag. It features a nifty wristband, preventing the...
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Not at all impeded by budget cuts in the aftermath of the recession, NASA is now asked to address how babies are made in space. On the front line of this issue is Dr. Rhawn Joseph, putting the ‘O’ back in zero gravity for the Journal of Cosmology in...
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If you don’t think NASA needs any promotion, consider the options that are open to a person that meets the physical and intellectual requirements; then consider what NASA pays… then consider what said person’s salary and benefits might be like if he or she were to enter the corporate...
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It had to happen, it was inevitable, after the old urinal cake bulls-eye game we men all know and love, the Japanese now have high tech urinal video games. These games called Sega Toylets will be installed over normal everyday toilets. Four mini games are planned at launch, mostly based...
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When it comes down to it, we humans really are a flawed species. Sure, we’ve got our thumbs – but take away our visual points of reference and we don’t all morph into Zatoichi, we just wander around in progressively smaller circles until we bump into a tree. This...
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Many car makers make many claims, but few would invite the public into the factory to see first hand what they do. In fact, few would welcome prospective buyers onto the factory floor to help build their future car. Not so VW in Dresden, Germany. This video is worth...
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Colonoscopies are gross and scary enough on their own without cockroaches being introduced into the mix – but the photograph that you see before you is of exactly that: a cockroach in someone’s colon, a live one no less....