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• Send a FREE Thank You Card to Our Troops

  
  Luv2BFrugal — Authority: 133
  Xerox is sponsoring a " Lets Say Thanks " campaign to encourage our military men and women this holiday. Simply go here, select a design to personalize with your name and hometown, and hit send. Thats all there is to it! Please take the time to encourage our troops this Christmas season, when theyre so far away from ...
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• The Perfect Gift For the Physicist Who Thinks In Ten Dimensions

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 537
  Calabi-Yau Manifold CrystalHoliday shopping can be tough. Holiday shopping for that special someone can be tougher—especially if that someone happens to be a theoretical physicist. Luckily, for the brainiac who has everything there’s this beautiful Calabi-Yau Manifold crystal.But what is it, you ask? Why, put ...
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• Tandem Unicycle

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 537
  This is quite an unusual device! Corbin Dunn, a computer programmer and mountain unicyclist, built this two-person unicycle. Alas, he lost a blog post about the construction of it, but his site filled with interesting pictures of his many unusual hobbies….Link via Make | Photo: Corbin Dunn
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• Saturday Morning Science Experiment: Flour On Fire

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 537
  Flour is not as innocuous as it may seem. Like other carbohydrates, it’s really just a tiny chain of sugars at heart. And (as anyone who’s ever made s’mores knows) sugar can light up like a dried-out Christmas Tree that’s been exposed to an electrical spark…In fact, flour dust is highly explosive. Today’s ...
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• Drug Screening At A Pie Eating Contest?

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 537
  No drugs used here!Baseball, football, bodybuilding — so many sports have been impacted by athletes secretly using performance-enhancing drugs. Sadly, even competitors in pie-eating competitions have resorted to such nefarious cheating. But officials at the upcoming World Pie Eating Championships in Wigan, UK have ...
  2 days ago

• Birmingham’s Jones Valley Urban Farm – Making a Difference

  
  City Farmer News — Authority: 133
  Photo by Southernpixel. Spring-time at The Jones Valley Urban Farm – a community-based non-profit organization in Birmingham, Alabama. Utilizing over 3 acres of vacant downtown property, JVUF grows organic produce and flowers, educates the community about healthy food, and helps make Birmingham a vibrant community. ...
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• Facial Recognition Door Locks

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 537
  Is this a  face only a door lock could love?Security technology has been really moving forward lately for both home and commercial use. A prime example of this is the Face Recognition Door lock. While this is designed more for the commercial market, it could be adapted to home use fairly easily.The enticingly named ...
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• Swedish Group Renames Hymen ‘Vaginal Corona’

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 537
  A rose by any other name?A Swedish sexual rights group unilaterally proclaimed a new English term for what it considers one of the most misunderstood parts of the female anatomy. “The mythical status of the hymen has caused far too much harm for far too long,” the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education (RFSU) ...
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• At Home Noodle Shop

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 537
  Fun with food!Somen is a refreshing Japanese wheat noodle, traditionally eaten in the summer to cool off from the Japan’s humid summers. They’re most famous for being eaten as “nagashimen,” noodles flying down a bamboo pipe as would-be eaters try to catch them with their chopsticks. It’s a ton of fun, but ...
  4 days ago

• Pantone Color of the Year 2010: Turquoise

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 537
  Pantone, the company which business is to know everything there is to know about colors, has just unveiled Color of the Year for 2010 (drumroll, please): turquoise!“Turquoise is universally appealing. It puts everyone in the same state of mind — on vacation,” says Jane Schoenborn, design director at Lilly ...
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• Revolutionizing the Course of the Universe

  
  Making Moments — Authority: 116
  This story took place a short time before Jenni and I were married. It was a very dull day at Deseret Book as I leaned against the counter, chin in hands, waiting for something to happen. One of my co-workers stood only a few feet away, bored as I was. “So,” I said, trying to break the monotony, “What ...
  5 days ago

• The Jedi Mind Control Game

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 537
  My Mind Is Stronger Than Your Mind!This is the Star Wars Jedi game that requires you to bring to bear all of your latent telekinetic powers of the Force in order to keep a ball levitating. Similar to EEG technology that reads the alpha and beta waves created by your brain, the game comes with [...]
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• Hydrokinetic Adjustable Wrench

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 537
  Doctor Who has his sonic screwdriver – a small tool that can adjust to any situation. It uses advancements in technology to provide an infinitely adaptable tool. While the Hydrokinetic Adjustable Wrench won’t let you start up your TARDIS, it will let you fiddle with twenty three different sizes of bolts and nuts. ...
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• Project Natal – Meeting Milo

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 537
  Meeting MiloSerious groundbreaking technology here. I have always said that motion controls for gaming, no matter what tech you used to derive your motion control, was a complete dead end for gaming, unless someone developed a revolutionary method to make it essential for gaming.To date, I have been proven 100% right ...
  6 days ago

• Rock On and Give

  
  The Future of Aging Blog — Authority: 123
  The first snowy night of the winter  didn’t stop 1500 people from trekking to Washington, D.C.’s Warner Theater to support Iona Senior Services and see the Young @ Heart chorus live.Iona has been helping seniors maintain their independence in the community since 1975 through a broad range of programs that ...
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• Artist Shopdropped Her Work on Black Friday

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 537
  Photo: Michelle Pred (planting her work into IKEA’s inventory.)As crowds rushed to find deals at the Emeryville, CA IKEA store, one of them had a plan other than shopping.  Michelle Pred was actually placing her artwork, complete with working IKEA barcodes, into the inventory, an act she calls “shopdropping.” ...
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• New Podcast: Tim Sanders - Author of Saving the World at Work & Love is the Killer App

  
  The M.A.P. Maker — Authority: 414
  When I talk about meaning in this blog, it is largely in the context of making a difference. So I was thrilled to have an opportunity to interview Tim Sanders about his new book, Saving the World at Work . In the book, Sanders, author of the best-selling Love is the Killer App and former Chief Solutions Officer ...
  1 week ago

• A Powerful Leader’s Four…

  
  Unfolding Neurons — Authority: 119
  [credit: Looking Glass ] A great leader does four things and does four things well (by the way, I’m not saying this is all that a great leader does! ) . Inspire For some this comes naturally – the ability to inspire others by what is said but even more by what that leader does.  For other leaders it comes ...
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• A World Where Serial Visual Data Transmission Never Existed

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 537
  That’s the vision behind Gebhard Sengmüller’s art installation entitled “A Parallel Image.” Starting with the work of French engineer Maurice Leblanc in 1880, moving images were transmittable electrically by breaking them down into single frames, and then frames into individual pixels. This is how broadcast ...
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• The Pulse Christmas Conspiracy

  
  :: laughing : dreaming : watching : waiting :: — Authority: 118
  Partly inspired by my last post, our youth community at church (Pulse) have decided to run a Christmas Conspiracy this December. The idea is to try to see past the stresses, presents, food and money that so fills Christmas every year, and try to do our small little bit to reflect some of the values of Jesus. Those ...
  1 week ago

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