Scientists Create Molecule to Make Teeth Cavityproof

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11 July 2012
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Scientists have discovered a new molecule that will make your teeth cavity-proof and may change dental care forever. They have appropriately named it Keep 32 — for your 32 teeth — and it can kill the bacteria that produces cavities in 60 seconds flat.

José Córdoba — a researcher at Yale University — and Erich Astudillo — from the Universidad de Santiago, Chile—claim that this molecule can be added to any dental care product, from toothpaste to mouthwash. In fact, they say it can be added to anything, even candies and chewing gum.

As long as the product stays in your mouth for 60 seconds, it will eliminate the dreadful Streptococcus Mutans, making your teeth cavity proof for a number of hours — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Rightwing US thinktank uses FoI laws to pursue climate scientists

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The ultra-conservative American Tradition Institute has expanded its legal pursuit of climate scientists, using transparency laws to try to flush out potentially damaging emails.

The strategy — used to seek records from prominent scientists such as Michael Mann — is seen by scientists as an excuse to try to dig up embarrassing or damaging communications that could be used to discredit climate science.

Now for the first time the media is being drawn in as well, with ATI seeking the release of scientists’ communications with specific journalists. The list of news organisations targeted by the request includes the New York Times, the Associated Press, Frontline and the Guardian — via The Guardian

2007 Triumph Bonneville / Cafe Racer Dreams

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10 July 2012
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If you live near Madrid and you want to add a custom touch to your Bonneville, you’re in luck. Cafe Racer Dreams have made a name for themselves with tweaked Triumphs and Honda CBs, and this is #15, their latest build.

It’s a 2007-model bike, the year when the Bonneville was given a capacity boost to 865cc and the engine was finished in black. CRD’s upgrades to this bike are relatively few, but they’ve given it a whole new stance and a strong retro feel — via Bike EXIF

Dogs’ evolution shows why they ‘love’ gnawing on bones

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10 July 2012
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Scientists say they have discovered why dogs love to eat meat and bones.

Ancient canines adopted pack-living about eight million years ago, to hunt larger prey, according to researchers.

The resulting evolution of their jaws gradually turned the ancestors of modern wolves, and ultimately our own pets, into hypercarnivores.

Dr Joao Munoz-Doran presented the findings at the First Joint Congress for Evolutionary Biology in Ottawa, Canada. — via BBC News

Parents try to smuggle baby through Xray machine in Sharjah

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Customs officials in Sharjah airport were stunned to see a five-month-old baby in a handbag go through an Xray machine on Saturday, according to reports.

The couple had actually arrived on Friday but was not allowed entry on account of not having a visa for the baby. Airport authorities allowed them to stay until the visa office opened on Sunday reported Emirates 24/7.

However on Saturday morning, the couple tried to sneak the baby out by placing him in hand luggage, thinking they could evade attention as a new security shift had started — via redwolf.newsvine.com

A Surgical Implant for Seeing Colors Through Sound

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10 July 2012
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A colour-blind European artist who has gained fame as a cyborg who sees colours through sound is planning to have an operation that will fuse his listening device to his skull.

Neil Harbisson, 29, was born with a rare condition called achromatopsia, which limits his colour perception to black and white. In 2004, working with friends, he began to wear a series of devices that translated colour into sound. While he initially used earphones, over the last eight years the devices have become increasingly incorporated into his body, to the point that his British passport photo now includes his device, which he calls an eyeborg. Currently Mr Harbisson wears the eyeborg — a single, antenna-like device that arcs from the nape of his neck over to the front of his forehead — continuously, even when he showers. A single sensor, which sits at the end of the antenna, turns colours directly in front of Mr Harbisson into sounds based on a correlation of frequencies of the wavelengths.

Mr Harbisson’s current eyeborg is pressed against the base of his head with extremely high pressure, which allows the sounds to reverberate along his skull to his eardrums. But his new eyeborg, to be implanted in September, will be connected to his body through three screws in his head — two to support the antenna and electronic chip, and a third for the sound to be passed into his skull, which will vibrate with the sound. He expects it will take about two months for the bone to heal around the implant — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Mark Miller accused in sword, sandwich attack

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10 July 2012
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Police in Florida said a man accused of attacking two women with a sword and a peanut butter sandwich bit the inside of a patrol car.

Polk County sheriff’s deputies said Mark Miller, 50, of Winter Haven told them he became angry Friday when two women were banging on his trailer, WFTV, Orlando, reported Tuesday — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Chutzpam

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10 July 2012
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We all know about spam. For most of us, it’s a matter of email. But if you run a website there’s the dreaded scourge of comment spam. You’ve seen it. People who go into comments and post totally off-topic comments with links to this or that commercial site. So, hey, you’re talking about health care reform and mandates, but check out the great Refi i just got at scamrefi.com!!!

Clearly, the folks who do this for a living are shameless and awful. But this morning I learned they’re striving for even greater levels of shamelessness and actually achieving it — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Ecole Maternelle Pajol / Palatre & Leclère

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9 July 2012
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Ecole Maternelle Pajol is a four-classroom kindergarten on Rue Pajol in Paris’s 18th arrondissement. Parisian architecture office Palatre & Leclère has restored and reimagined the 1940s building, yet they have left the basic feel of the structure unchanged. We believe in repurposing and saving older buildings, but letting them tell their previous stories, even in their new guises — via The Cool Hunter

Abbott’s Politburo Propaganda

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9 July 2012
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On Thursday last week the document Coalition Speaker’s Notes (sic) fell off the back of a truck into Crikey’s hands. In its use of selective and fudged statistics its style is reminiscent of the propaganda pamphlets of the communist governments from the 1960s.

It is peppered with emotive and unsubstantiated statements about Labor’s economic mismanagement and the massive government debt Labor has bequeathed to young Australians.

Like those pamphlets it is written for the most gullible. For example, in its hagiography of John Howard it says The former Coalition government increased higher education funding by 13 per cent in real terms, immediately followed by the statement Between 1995 and 2005, the number of students in Australian universities increased by 58 per cent. If the number of students rises more than funding, what does this say about funding per capita?

In any event, anyone who takes the care to look up even the most basic economic data to put a context to that 13 per cent rise will see that over the 11 years of the Coalition government real GDP rose by 49 per cent. A little primary school algebra applied to these figures reveals that as a proportion of GDP higher education funding fell by a quarter.

Its most glaring abuse of statistics is its opening table of Key economic indicators, comparing selective indicators for the Howard Government with those of the Rudd/Gillard Government. It’s a straight take on the tables published in the old Soviet Union, comparing the achievements of the Party’s Glorious Five Year Plan with the failures of the governments of the decadent western imperialists — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Obituary: Ernest Borgnine

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9 July 2012
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With his stocky build, bulging eyes and gap-toothed, pugnacious features, Ernest Borgnine, who has died aged 95, was one of Hollywood’s leading character actors.

His looks meant he often ended up playing the heavy, so it was, perhaps, a mark of his versatility that his only Oscar came for his role as the good natured Marty, in the 1955 film of the same name.

He added longevity to that versatility, being nominated for an Emmy when he was in his 90s.

Ernest Effron Borgnino was born on 24 January 1917 in Hamden, Connecticut, the son of Italian immigrants. His parents moved to New Haven in 1923 and changed the family name to Borgnine.

He had no early ambition to be an actor and, on leaving high school in 1935, he enlisted in the United States Navy. Discharged in 1941 he joined up again after Pearl Harbor and served until the end of the war.

On his return to civilian life he began working in a number of factory jobs until his mother suggested that his forceful personality might find more fulfilling expression on the stage — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Study links parasite found in cats to suicide risk in humans

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9 July 2012
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A wily parasite well known for influencing the behaviour of its animal hosts appears to play a troubling role in humans, increasing the risk of suicide among women who are infected, new research shows.

Chances are you or someone you know has been infiltrated by the parasite, called Toxoplasma gondii. Researchers estimate that T gondii is carried by 10% to 20% of Americans, who can get it by changing litter used by infected cats or eating undercooked meat from an animal carrying the bug.

Despite its prevalence in humans, the protozoan is most famous for the strange effect it has on the brains of rats and mice — via redwolf.newsvine.com

BMW R75/6 cafe racer / Casey Wilkinson

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9 July 2012
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1970s-era BMW airheads respond well to the cafe racer treatment. But you don’t often see one with a mono-shock conversion. This 1976 R75/6 is owned by graphic designer Casey Wilkinson of the motorcycle-mad Wilkinson Brothers, and he spotted it at the AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days. Despite having 100,000 miles on the clock, Casey bought it, and started drawing up a racy profile for his new acqusition. He mocked up a subframe and swingarm with quarter-inch steel round bar, and shaped a new tailpiece with insulation foam board — via Bike EXIF

Project: Match Rockets / Grathio Labs

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9 July 2012
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You can make these super fun, easy, and cheap rockets from stuff you probably have around the house. All you need are paper matches, a paper clip, a pin or needle, and a scrap of aluminium foil.

I used to spend hours making these when I was young, and I had just as much fun launching them for this video.

Read more about them and get a template to turn a matchbook into a pocket rocket factory at Grathio Labs

Buick Streamliner / Norman E Timbs

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7 July 2012
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This Buick Streamliner featuring custom aluminium body and steel chassis was created by Norman E Timbs. It has to be said its graceful lines possess a timeless beauty that still holds as true today as it did in 1948 when the Californian unveiled it to the world — via A Parallel World

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