While scrolling through my Health RSS Feed I chanced upon news that the Gene for left-handedness is found. Well, they are finding a gene for almost anything these days, I thought, and almost scrolled on before this hit my eye from the news summary in my feed reader:
The Oxford University-led team believe carrying the gene [...]
BusinessWeek profiles an interesting house that is literally self-sufficient.
Meet the Moomaws. Their goal is to build a retirement home in New England that will produce as much electricity as it consumes.
Building the home will be no small task. The couple, who have two children in their thirties, have spent the past year calculating all of [...]
metathinking links to this interesting piece of news:
On the screen, a small pulse shifts back and forth – just a little bit. But this seemingly unremarkable phenomenon could have profound technological consequences. It represents the success of Luc Thévenaz and his fellow researchers in the Nanophotonics and Metrology laboratory at EPFL in controlling the speed [...]
from the christian science monitor comes this neat piece of news that could well change the way we look at energy and its creation. have we really discovered the cornucopia of cold fusion this time?only time will tell.
no, i haven’t forgotten the nursery rhyme. just updated it for our modern times:
what at first glance looks like an alien, wheeled-mouse, is infact mit media lab research associate, gauri nanda’s newest creation. hit the snooze button on “the clocky” and this locomotive [...]