Okay, it is not every day that you come across a home like this. Sliding House, by dRMM Architecture does something that we have never seen or heard any another house do – it slides — via Home-Designing
Sergeant Rex, an extraordinary military working dog, will finally be reunited in adoption with his former partner, Iraq War veteran, Corporal Megan Leavey, USMC.
Rex is at Camp Pendleton, California, and Leavey left Monday night to fly to California to pick him up after the US Air Force signed off on the adoption. The US Marines are completing the paperwork necessary for the adoption.
US Senator Chuck Schumer, who launched an online petition drive called Saving Sergeant Rex
advocating the adoption of Sergeant Rex by his former handler, Marine Corporal Megan Leavey of Rockland County announced Monday night that the US Air Force has agreed to release the dog so that Leavey can adopt him — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Up to 11 boys were castrated while in the care of the Dutch Roman Catholic church in the 1950s to rid them of homosexuality, a newspaper investigation has said.
A young man was castrated in 1956 after telling police he was being abused by priests, the newspaper reported.
The justice minister is investigating the role of the government at the time.
Last year, an inquiry found thousands of children had been sexually abused in Dutch Catholic institutions since 1945.
Dutch MPs called for an inquiry after the report was published in the NRC Handelsblad newspaper at the weekend — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Sculpted in terracotta, cast in poly resin and painted with casein paint — via Ace Gallery
The risk of premature babies developing cerebral palsy is cut by a third if the mother is given magnesium sulphate immediately before birth, new research shows.
It has only been proven to work in babies born before 30 weeks, but advocates say the approach would still prevent up to 150 babies developing the chronic life-long condition every year.
Doctors are hailing the development as the biggest breakthrough in preventing the debilitating condition in half a century, despite the fact it is not yet being routinely used in hospitals — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Four endangered white rhinoceroses have died from a mystery illness at the Taronga Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo.
It is understood each of the rhinos exhibited signs of stumbling before they died.
Zoo vets are liaising with specialists in Africa and North America and a number of tests have been carried out to work out what has caused the death — via redwolf.newsvine.com
— via Society6
This video will show how to tie a Gaucho knot using a length of paracord, Jumbo Perma-Lok lacing needle, 1/2″ diameter PVC pipe, rubber band, and a clay stylus. I’ve used the stylus for years as a makeshift marlinspike and it’s done just fine for that purpose. You can also use an awl or other pointed object to dress a knot, as you work out the slack and tighten it up, keeping it neat and even in appearance — via Stormdrane’s Blog
An Italian student has won an out-of-court settlement with police after she was stopped under anti-terrorist legislation while filming buildings in London, and later arrested, held in a cell for five hours and then fined.
Simona Bonomo filmed the moment she was approached by two police community support officers (PCSOs) in Paddington, west London, and later gave the footage to the Guardian.
The video, which went viral, showed one of the officers — PSCO Thomas Cooke — question the art student about why she was filming buildings iconic to us
and demand to see images on her camera. In doing so he claimed to have powers that he did not have.
He and another PCSO then departed, only to return with other police officers who accused Bonomo, 34, of being aggressive. She was bundled to the ground and arrested — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A student faces jail after admitting posting offensive comments on Twitter about the on-pitch collapse of footballer Fabrice Muamba.
Liam Stacey was arrested after his tweets were reported to police by Twitter users from across Britain, including former England striker Stan Collymore.
Stacey, 21, spent Sunday night in custody and was brought before magistrates in Swansea on Monday, where he admitted incitement to racial hatred. He was released on bail on condition that he stayed off Twitter and other social networking sites and will be sentenced next week. Stacey was told he could be jailed.
The swiftness of the arrest demonstrates how seriously police forces are taking the posting of potentially criminal comments on social networking sites by so-called trolls
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
On Monday, the Archives of Internal Medicine published a study titled Red Meat Consumption and Mortality
and it will not surprise you to learn that when I used Google to check for the fallout, I found some 900 new stories from publications scattered around the planet.
The study was conducted by researchers at Harvard University, which undoubtedly added to its credibility factor. But it’s important to note that this was not a controlled experiment that established a causal link between red meat and specific causes of death.
In fact, the researchers used a rather broad definition of red meat that included unprocessed
sources such as beef, pork, and lamb as well as processed
sources such as bacon, pepperoni, hot dogs and baloney slices. This leads the picky science writer to feel argumentative: wouldn’t there be different issues associated with eating these different products? The researchers report that mortality risks are greater with processed meats, possibly due to the chemical preservatives. But to continue being picky: Is this just a red meat issue? What about the possible chemical risks of, say, processed poultry products? — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A throwback to early 20th Century aviation may hold the key to eliminating the sonic boom — at least according to researchers at MIT and Stanford University. Strongly reminiscent of biplanes still in use today, the researcher’s concept supersonic aircraft introduces a second wing which it is claimed cancels the shockwaves generated by objects near or beyond the sound barrier.
In fact the idea is not a new one. The idea of a biplane to negate the sonic boom was proposed in the 1930s by aviation pioneer Adolf Busemann, also responsible for the idea of swept-wing aircraft — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Tunnelling work is about to begin on a grand scale in London as the £16bn Crossrail project gets set to build 26 miles (42km) of tunnels beneath the capital.
The first of eight highly specialised Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM), which each weigh nearly 1,000 tonnes, is being positioned at Royal Oak in west London. From here it will begin its slow journey east, as it carves out a new east-west underground link. The scheme is currently the largest civil engineering project in Europe — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A hard-to-detect piece of malware that doesn’t create any files on the affected systems was dropped onto the computers of visitors to popular news sites in Russia in a drive-by download attack, according to security researchers from antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab.
Drive-by download attacks are one of the primary methods of distributing malware over the Web. They usually exploit vulnerabilities in outdated software products to infect computers without requiring user interaction.
Kaspersky Lab researchers recently investigated such an attack on visitors to www.ria.ru, a website that belongs to the Russian RIA Novosti news agency, and www.gazeta.ru, a popular Russian-language online newspaper.
The attack code loaded an exploit for a known Java vulnerability (CVE-2011-3544), but it wasn’t hosted on the affected websites themselves. Instead, it was served to their visitors through banners displayed by a third-party advertising service called AdFox — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Illustrator and author Adam Rex painted Giant Squid vs Pirates mural in his backyard. It is based on an illustration he did for the children’s book Billy Twitters and his Blue Whale Problem by Mac Barnett — via Laughing Squid
Carlo Saltarelli has Ducati blood in his veins. He’s a former racer, test rider and dealership owner, and over the years, he’s built up a 100-bike collection of classic Ducatis. In May, this collection goes under the hammer in Monaco. For us, the highlight is this beautiful 1974 750SS Corsa: it’s one of Saltarelli’s own race bikes, and took him to several podium finishes during the 1974 and 1975 seasons — via Bike EXIF
Black bears have a surprising capacity to heal as they hibernate, say researchers in the US.
Medical researchers and zoologists worked together to find that the bears’ wounds healed with almost no scarring, and were infection-free.
The scientists hope, eventually, to find out exactly how the bears’ bodies heal while their body temperature, heart rate and metabolism are reduced.
This could aid studies of human wound-healing.
The findings, published in the journal Integrative Zoology, are of particular relevance to medical researchers hoping to improve slow-healing and infection-prone wounds in elderly, malnourished or diabetic patients — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Google’s Web Font service has been around for a while now, but in the last few months the company’s been working hard to optimise and simplify its use. If you’re an old-school developer like me, you’ve probably stuck to classics like Tahoma, Verdana and Arial. Now, with modern browsers that better follow W3C standards and the chunky bandwidth of today’s internet, there’s really no reason to limit yourself.
If you’re worried about compatibility, don’t be. As Google’s FAQ on the service points out, Web Fonts has excellent support for all popular browsers — via Lifehacker
This home extension is all about the outdoors, from bringing natural light and ventilation to the interior to pushing its occupants out into a big backyard or up onto a stunning rooftop deck.
From their time in England, the owners wanted the familiar feel of an open conservatory in their Chicago home addition – and got their wish in spades from dSpace Studio — via Dornob
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