Crazy Stuff

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• Potential Treatment for Huntington’s Disease

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 520
  Normal synaptic activity in nerve cells protects the brain from the misfolded proteins associated with Huntington’s disease, researchers have discovered.Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham), the University of British Columbia’s Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics and the ...
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• Ancient Penguin DNA Raises Doubts About Accuracy of Genetic Dating Techniques

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 520
  Adelie penguins have survived in Antarctica for thousands of years and are invaluable for genetic research.Penguins that died 44,000 years ago in Antarctica have provided extraordinary frozen DNA samples that challenge the accuracy of traditional genetic aging measurements, and suggest those approaches have been ...
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• ‘Universal’ Programmable Two-Qubit Quantum Processor Created

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 520
  NIST postdoctoral researcher David Hanneke at the laser table used to demonstrate the first universal programmable processor for a potential quantum computer.Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated the first “universal” programmable quantum information processor ...
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• Gene Therapy Can Improve Muscle Mass and Strength in Monkeys, Research Suggests

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 520
  Cynomolgus macaque. New research in these primates suggests that a gene delivery strategy that produces follistatin can improve muscle mass and function.A study appearing in Science Translational Medicine puts scientists one step closer to clinical trials to test a gene delivery strategy to improve muscle mass and ...
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• Bubbling Ball of Gas: SUNRISE Telescope Delivers Spectacular Pictures of Sun’s Surface

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 520
  The IMaX instrument not only depicts the solar surface, it also makes magnetic fields visible; these appear as black or white structures in the polarised light.The Sun is a bubbling mass. Packages of gas rise and sink, lending the sun its grainy surface structure, its granulation. Dark spots appear and disappear, ...
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• Tom Colicchio Does Coke on the T

  
  The Food Monkey — Authority: 114
  Having garnered great notoriety as both a chef and reality show host, Tom Colicchio has just completed the culinary trifecta by becoming a spokesperson for Diet Coke, which is bringing back its old slogan, “Just for the taste of it”. He is now adorning the walls of Government Center. It seems that Chef ...
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• Crazy Camera Van

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 520
  Captured on filmObsessed with cameras much?  While you can probably deny it, the owner of this vehicle – the Camera Van – can’t.  Literally decked in thousands of cameras, it’s what the Google Street View cars would have looked like if their designers had some panache.  Or were clinically insane.  Either ...
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• Voting Opens For Angry Mermaid Award For Most Detrimental Climate Lobbying

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 520
  That’s one pissed fish!The damaging impacts of corporate lobbying on international efforts to fight climate change are exposed today with the announcement of the eight candidates for the Angry Mermaid Award 2009.The Angry Mermaid Award is named after the iconic Copenhagen mermaid who is angry about the destruction ...
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• Top 10 Photos of the Week

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 520
  “Whoa dude! Clean your lens or something”The photos we have this week are guaranteed to hit you from heft field. In fact, that’s where we keep all the things we want to hit you with – left field. If you are ever interested in going to left field, just turn around, you’ll find it on your blind [...]
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• Tom Wright’s Street-Legal Bumper Cars

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 520
  Don’t go bumping these cars!Here’s an interesting up-cycling story about some boy toys that have found legal ground and even more fun from a bumped up perspective.“Bumper cars were crazy fun when I was a kid. Even as an adult today, they still look immensely entertaining and I’d probably be on one every ...
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• The True Colors Of The So Called Health Debate

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 520
  “One of the reasons I have long supported the U.S. biotechnology industry is that it is a homegrown success story that has been an engine of job creation in this country.” This written statement by Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina on the health care bill was identical to one by Representative Blaine Luetkemeyer ...
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• Cigarette Pack Phone

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 520
  Am I gonna be able to see my sexts on there?You may really love your Marlboro lights, but we seriously doubt that you love them enough to be willing to purchase a cigarette-box-phone (if that’s what you call it). This phone is a dual-band GSM device, has a 1.6-inch display, MP3/MP4 player, Bluetooth, FM radio, and ...
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• Kick Some Ass With An Automatic Shotgun

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 520
  Only available to the US Military (and Blackwater employees?), this new shotgun is fully automatic and can shoot a mini-missle.Crazy stuff!
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• The Beatles Never Broke Up?

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 520
  Get ready for a strange story of a lost Beatles album found on cassette on the other side of a portal to a parallel universe. James Richards brought the cassette back and is making all the songs available. Here’s the skinny…“On Sept. 9, 2009 I experienced something that I still am having trouble believing ...
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• Amazing “Where the Wild Things Are” Chalk Wall Art Timelapse Video

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 520
  It took over 11 hours to create these two “Where the Wild Things Are” chalk murals at Arnold DC, a Washington ad agency. Watch the timelapse video of their creation, using over 1,500 stills. Really cool.via Neatorama
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• Wont somebody be friends with me?

  
  Sauntering Soul — Authority: 113
  Im totally stealing this from Fianna . She just posted something like this on her blog. As most of you have probably noticed, I dont get by here very often to update my blog. I am doing really good if I put up a post once per week. I think its because Im entirely too word-y and dont have the time to write a long ...
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• ESA Spacecraft May Help Unravel Cosmic Mystery

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 520
  Cassini-Huygens swings by Earth and accelerates towards Saturn.When Europe’s comet chaser Rosetta swings by Earth on Nov. 13 for a critical gravity assist, tracking data will be collected to precisely measure the satellite’s change in orbital energy. The results could help unravel a cosmic mystery that has stumped ...
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• Can A Plant Be Altruistic?

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 520
  Yellow jewelweed (impatiens pallida) appears to have the ability to recognize ‘relatives’ from ’strangers’ and then shift resources for growth to benefit relatives.Although plants have the ability to sense and respond to other plants, their ability to recognize kin and act altruistically has been the subject ...
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• Two Earth-sized Bodies With Oxygen Rich Atmospheres Found, But They’re Stars Not Planets

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 520
  Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectroscopy of this inconspicuous blue object.Astrophysicists at the University of Warwick and Kiel University have discovered two earth sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres — however there is a bit of a disappointing snag for anyone looking for a potential home for alien life, or even ...
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• Bizarre Lives Of Bone-eating Worms

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 520
  This photograph shows a female of an as yet un-named boneworm in the genus Osedax, which has been carefully removed from the whale bone in which it was growing.It sounds like a classic horror story — eyeless, mouthless worms lurk in the dark, settling onto dead animals and sending out green “roots” to devour ...
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