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How to Foil a Phone Thief
Next time somebody tries to swipe your mobile, fight back with prerecorded screams, digital locks that render your handset useless or other antitheft tech. By Aria Pearson from Wired magazine. The Rebirth of Optimus Prime: Behind the Scenes with Director Michael
Steven Spielberg is the producer. Giant, ass-kicking robots are the stars. So why are Transformers fans so freaked out? Two words: Michael Bay. [Misc] Missing grand fork found in Grand Forks
The grand fork has been found.The 6-foot-tall utensil-one of about 50 in an "Unforkettable"collection scattered around Grand Forks as tourist attractions-disappeared over the weekend from outside the city's Chamber of Commerce building. [Funny] A referee has sent himself off in an English amateur league ma
Andy Wain had to abandon the Sunday league match between Peterborough North End and a Royal Mail side in the 63rd minute after throwing down his whistle and marching up to confront North End's keeper. R Rating Might Be Unlikely To Affect Teens Exposure To Smoking In Movi
Several recent research studies published in the US have determined that young adolescents who see smoking scenes in movies are more likely to smoke. To combat smoking among youth, public health groups have called for restricted ratings for movies that depict smoking. A new study from New Zealand, however, calls that strategy into question, noting that the R rating may not have the intended effect of putting such movies 'out of reach'of children. Engineers Study Brain Folding In Higher Mammals
Engineers are finding common ground between the shaping of the brain and the heart during embryonic development.They are examining mechanical and developmental processes that occur in the folding of the brain's surface, or cortex, which gives the higher mammalian brain more surface area (and hence more intellectual capacity) than a brain of comparable volume with a smooth surface. Study Suggests Potential Underlying Cause For Dementia After Cancer Tr
Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine have identified changes in brain chemistry that may be associated with the dementia that many cancer patients develop after whole-brain radiation treatment. A Reason Why Video Games Are Hard To Give Up
Kids and adults will stay glued to video games this holiday seasonbecause the fun of playing actually is rooted in fulfilling their basic psychological needs. Psychologists at the University of Rochester, in collaboration with Immersyve Inc., a virtual environment think tank, asked 1,000 gamers what motivates them to keep playing. The results published in the journal Motivation and Emotion this month suggest that people enjoy video games because they find them intrinsically satisfying. Spanish heavy metal
Spanish scientists have used some tricky mathematics to help them work out where heavy metal comes from. Their findings, based on atomic analysis, will provide information useful in protecting us from these toxic elements.Contamination of soils with heavy metal contaminants has become and increasingly important environmental issue, particularly in developed countries because of shifting land-use [...] Baby Fish 'Smell Their Way Home'
Marine scientists working on Australia's Great Barrier Reef have uncovered evidence that baby fish, only millimetres long, manage to find their way to their home coral reef across miles of open sea by using their sense of smell.
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