February 21, 2011

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ooks really nice this wine packaging made by Victor Eide. “The target lines were to make an expensive premium wine. My idea was to make a modern and simple wine instead of the usual old wine bottles. The cubes symbolized wine grapes to get that modern feeling. I made a tin can to go with the wine [...]

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s widely expected, Facebook has announced that it has passed the 500 million member mark. In a blog post, CEO Mark Zuckerberg writes that, “I could have never imagined all of the ways people would use Facebook when we were getting started 6 years ago. I want to thank you for being part of making [...]

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photographer born in Buenos Aires, started an interesting project called “Back to The Future” where she takes someone’s old photo and recreates the same old scene with the same person many years later. While it might not sound too complicated, she is unbelievably accurate – it seems that she just found some old and young [...]

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oeing and Space Adventures have joined forces to offer “affordable” travel to low Earth orbit for private space tourists. A memorandum of agreement between the two companies could see flights on-board the Boeing Crew Space Transportation-100 (CST-100) spacecraft from 2015. Space Adventures plans to market the commercial seats to private individuals, businesses and U.S federal [...]

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r. Boyce Watkins wrote a very insightful piece entitled 3 Things Obama Must Address for Black People.  In this piece Dr. Watkins correctly highlighted that the collective African American community and Obama administration has been too politically polite; too deferential regarding White sensitivity towards race.  President Obama must speak to economic inequality, disproportionate mass incarceration [...]

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  elcome to the New State of Sound! If Bose, Sennheiser and Bang & Olufsen and others are your favorite brands, you would be expecting a very good quality of sound on your speakers when you buy them. Lucy Smith and others are working on a high spec headphones called Atomic Floyd. These headphones can [...]

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everal years ago, a joint team from Canada’s York, McGill and Dalhousie universities created AQUA, an underwater swimming robot. AQUA has six flippers, three on each side, and uses them to paddle through the water, it’s somewhat reminiscent of a platypus, albeit a six-legged one. Using a different set of appendages, it can even swim [...]

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he Eurozone has been swept up in turmoil that has ranged from stock and bond markets to exchange rates, government spending, and tax rates. In this column first published on VoxEU.org, Marco Pagano, Professor at the University of Naples Federico II and CEPR Research Fellow, explains events, how they hang together, and what needs to [...]

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ocke developed the concept of the “second-order properties” of objects that I have found useful in a number of philosophical discussions. A second-order property is a property that does not exist in objects independently, but only exist by virtue of there being a perceiver. For example, size, shape and motion are first-order properties, while colour, [...]

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any a times doctors and medical health practitioners feel the need to check the position, location and the size of veins for various reason. It could be to check the length and girth of the vein itself or the best location to give a shot. Whatever the case is, proper observation of the veins is [...]

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study indicates that a drug used to treat HIV after infection can also lower the risk of gay men becoming infected with the virus. The research, published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that giving Truvada to gay men at high risk of HIV lowered their chances of acquiring the virus [...]