Strivectin is best described by the creators themselves as an anti aging cream that happened quite by accident. To me, that sounds weird. There are a bunch of discount strivectin websites doing the rounds too. Technically, Strivectin uses a compound called Palmitoyl Oligopeptide to do the heavy lifting. Klein-Becker is the company that produced and […]
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Strivectin SD Anti Aging Cream: So is it for real?
September 10th, 2007 · No Comments
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Solar Powered Flashlight - BoGolight
May 21st, 2007 · No Comments
The BoGolight is so named for being “Buy one Give one”. These are unique solar powered LED flashlights that are still bright enough to read by at night.
The flashlight has a solar panel which charges regular rechargeable cells in 8 hours. Once fully charged, it can provide light for upto 4 hours. It has 6 […]
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James Webb Space Telescope: Hubble’s Successor
May 18th, 2007 · No Comments
Nasa unvieled the James Webb Space Telescope earlier this week. The telescope is named after a Nasa administrator who was in charge during the moon-exploration Apollo era. It has a huge reflector thrice the size of Hubble’s and will gaze farther into the past of the Universe than anything else ever has. See, the farther […]
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Suing Uri Geller
May 14th, 2007 · No Comments
Uri Geller tried to take down some youtube videos by invoking the DMCA copyright laws. The trouble is, he wasn’t the “original” producer of the videos or anything like that. So he asked youtube to take down some videos that expose him, while he wasn’t the owner of the content. And guess what, youtube responded […]
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Narconon Drug Rehabilitation
April 25th, 2007 · No Comments
There is this michigan drug rehabilitation center called Narconon stone hawk - don’t even ask me how I ended up on that website - I blame it on Britney Spears and the general trend to resort to drug rehab as a pseudo-publicity stunt. So, then I started reading about how in the hell these centers […]
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The 100% Stain Resistant Shirt is here.
April 13th, 2007 · No Comments
We’ve removed the fear of eating spaghetti bolognese in public for the very first time.
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Blood groups ‘can be converted’ - Creating “Neutral” Blood
April 11th, 2007 · No Comments
Scientists have developed a way of converting one blood group into another. They can convert RH Positive blood from one blood group to another. This should fix the O-ve blood shortage problem. The absolutely amazing techniques uses micro-organisms to work on the blood cells and strip them of their “group”-iness. The paper describing the work […]
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A Smack to the Head Will Fix Your Craving
March 20th, 2007 · No Comments
Now I see the truth behind my father’s saying that all I need to stop smoking is a strategically placed smack to the head!
Scientists studying stroke patients are reporting that an injury to a specific part of the brain, near the ear, can instantly and permanently break a smoking habit, effectively erasing the most stubborn […]
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Molecule Jewellery For Scientists and Wannabes
March 14th, 2007 · No Comments
Made With Molecules sells jewelery shaped like molecules. Wonderful gift idea for that science graduate student in your life, or, as in my case, for my significant other who is science-friendly.
A selection of items on sale:
serotonin necklace
dopamine necklace
focus necklace
neurotransmitter earrings
estrogen jewelry
caffeine jewelry
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Pulling the plug on email
March 10th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Everybodys talking, but no one says a word - John Lennon
In offices and schools all around the developed world, people talk more online and less offline, and so John Lennon turns out to be a visionary ahead of this time.
I read the quote at this article that describes one editor’s effort to stop using […]
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Interesting Ad for Ford Mustang
March 10th, 2007 · 1 Comment
The blur effect you see in the ad is for real - the billboard uses GE Lexan EXL Semi-transparent Resin to blur whats behind the billboard, regardless of weather, season and lighting. See Ian Hart’s page for details. Ian was the guy who designed the ads. The ads take the cake for creative use of […]
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You Can’t Whistle In a Space Suit
February 26th, 2007 · No Comments
ABC News: Whistle While You Work? Not in Space
“You can’t whistle because the air pressure in the suit is only 4.3 pounds per square inch, and normal atmospheric pressure is 14.7 psi, so there are not enough air molecules blowing by your lips to make a sound.”
Now, suddenly, I don’t want to go to space […]
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The history of Evolutionary Computation
February 7th, 2007 · 2 Comments
The history of evolutionary computation, vol. 1 is a great article that merits a read, at least one read, that is.
Bravo!
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How to write an awesome scientific paper
February 6th, 2007 · No Comments
How to write an awesome scientific paper | COSMOS magazine
Turning even the most dreary scientific paper into a riveting read is not as hard as it may seem…
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The Brain Says the Coke Ad Was the Best
February 5th, 2007 · No Comments
FKF Applied Research, with the help of UCLA’s Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, said that Coca-Cola’s “Video Game” ad–a 60-second animated spot that promotes random acts of kindness–scored this year because it elicited the most positive emotions in subjects’ brains.
From news.com.com
Interesting research - they monitor brain activity to see which ads elicit the most “positive” […]
How athletes’ sex is verified
February 4th, 2007 · No Comments
You must remember that I wrote about an Indian Athlete who failed a sex test. I was left wondering what test it was that could possibly identify a female as a male. I also wondered why the physician doing the test would’nt simply ask the athlete to lower his/her pants.
The reason why the pants stay […]
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The Forer effect or Why Horoscopes seem so true
February 2nd, 2007 · No Comments
Today I was searching for the name of the phenomenon by which positive affirmations, predictions or personality analysis always seems true. There is no end to the number of personality tests online - ones that aid self-discovery and promote a better understanding of one’s self - you get what I am talking about.
Turns out there […]
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Look up Number Sequences at the Online Encyclopedia
January 27th, 2007 · No Comments
The Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences has been around for a long, long time and yet it stays handy to lookup that number sequence that shows up in your research data. Born from the AT&T research labs, back when they were still the best
In fact, it is handy to look up your phone number, or […]
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Apollon: World’s oldest ritual discovered
January 3rd, 2007 · No Comments
Apollon: World’s oldest ritual discovered. Worshipped the python 70,000 years ago
They did not burn the spearheads by chance. They brought them from hundreds of kilometers away and intentionally burned them. So many pieces of the puzzle fit together here. It has to represent a ritual…
Torfinn Ørmen, a zoologist who lectures on human evolutionary history at […]
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Levitated for a hour above Flash
January 2nd, 2007 · No Comments
Levitated | Everything - Look at these here flash pieces-of-art if you do nothing else today. Some of them explore symmetry, some science, some the I-ching, and some just let me explore them.
I love it. Time to get back to the levitated gallery…
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