Cleaning generally isn’t anyone’s favourite activity, but it’s a lot less fun when you’re spending your hard-earned dollars on several supplies. You can, however, effectively clean your home with a few things you probably already have. Here’s how to do it — via Lifehacker
The battle over scarce radio spectrum that has embroiled the mobile broadband world even extends to a little-known type of wireless network that promises to reconnect the human nervous system with paralysed limbs.
At its monthly meeting next week, the US Federal Communications Commission will consider whether four sets of frequencies between 413MHz and 457MHz can be used by networks of sensors implanted in patients who suffer from various forms of paralysis. One intended purpose of these MMNS (medical micropower network systems) is to transmit movement commands from a sensor on a patient’s spinal cord, through a wearable MCU (master control unit), to implants that electrically stimulate nerves. The same wireless technology might be used in devices to restore sight or hearing — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Howrah Bridge in the Indian city of Kolkata is at risk of collapsing because the steel at its base is being corroded by human saliva.
Pedestrians who have been chewing betel leaf, areca nut and slaked lime have been spitting on the bridge’s steel hangers, causing them to weaken.
The red stains left by the paan mixture — a mild stimulant chewed throughout India — are caked around the metal casings of the bridge.
Authorities say the paan-laced spit has reduced the thickness of the bridge’s hangers from six millimetres to three millimetres — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The task was to help local scientists try to persuade village women to place chunks of iron in their cooking pots to get more iron in their diet and lower the risk of anemia. Great in theory, but the women weren’t having it.
It was an enticing challenge in a country where iron deficiency is so rampant, 60 per cent of women face premature labour, haemorrhaging during childbirth and poor brain development among their babies.
A disease of poverty, iron deficiency affects 3.5 billion people in the world.
The people they worked with — the poorest of the poor
— can’t afford red meat or pricey iron pills, and the women won’t switch to iron cooking pots because they find them heavy and costly. Yet a small chunk of iron could release life-saving iron into the water and food. But what shape would the women be willing to place in their cooking pots?
We knew some random piece of ugly metal wouldn’t work… so we had to come up with an attractive idea,
he said. It became a challenge in social marketing
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
A North Korean prison camp survivor has given a rare testimony exposing public executions and starvation at the detention centre where she was held for 28 years.
Kim Hye Sook was aged 13 when she was sent to join her parents at the Gwalliso No 18 political prisoners camp where detainees were treated worse than dogs
while carrying out enforced labour and being abused by guards.
Ms Kim, who was released in 2001 and now lives in South Korea, sobbed as she told a conference in Geneva how she was forced to watch public shootings and went without food to feed her brothers and sisters, who remain in detention — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Due to space limitations the new owners, a family of four, decided to heightening the existing bungalow and furthermore to renovate [Roger Christ] the basic structure. To keep the bungalow’s typical character three single boxes were placed on a cantilevered flat roof, which are connected only by a glass corridor — via ArchDaily
A beautiful new baby Malayan Tapir has come into the world — well, she’s come to the Edinburgh Zoo! The baby’s name is Nadira, which means precious gift
in Malaysian. She was born on 3 October, the fourth baby born to Edinburgh Zoo’s adult tapir pair, mum Sayang and dad Ka. She’s turning heads with her unique look — via ZooBorns
This 1980 CB750 KZ, the latest custom from Cafe Racer Dreams. Nicknamed Brownie
, it’s a CB750 on a diet. The Spanish builder’s changes are relatively small and conservative, but well-judged—this is the second bike they’ve modified in this style, and it’s becoming a signature look — via Bike EXIF
More countries deployed anti-personnel mines last year than in any year since 2004, an international survey of landmines has found.
The Landmine Monitor report says use of the weapons increased despite record areas of land being cleared of them.
Four countries which have not signed an international treaty outlawing the devices – Syria, Libya, Burma and Israel – laid new mines this year.
Armed groups in Afghanistan, Colombia, Burma and Pakistan also laid new mines — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Iron Maiden frontman and pilot Bruce Dickinson has vowed to resurrect a UK airline which has gone into administration.
In the past Dickinson flew for Astraeus Airlines and this week he captained its last flight, flying a Boeing passenger jet from Jeddah in Saudi Arabia to Manchester.
The singer is forming a plan to save the airline, which was owned by an Icelandic-based travel group but is based at Crawley in West Sussex. It is understood that the business would continue to work by leasing planes to major carriers to cover routes when needed, as it did previously — via redwolf.newsvine.com
TravelMath provides an online travel calculator to help you find answers quickly. If you’re planning a trip, you can measure things like travel distance and travel time
World Time Clock & Map is an indispensable utility for everyone who deals with people abroad or anybody who is keen on knowing what time it is further than locally.
This advanced Flash application is very helpful for travellers who need to know time difference around the world and want to be aware of world time zone they are travelling to, as well as for businesses which are located in different time zones and want to know current local time of their partners and customers
South Africa’s National Assembly passed a bill on Tuesday that would protect
state information and potentially impose 25-year criminal sentences on journalists who publish or possess state documents that the South African government deems to be secret.
The ruling African National Congress hailed the bill as a necessary measure to protect South Africa’s national security information from foreign spies. But news organizations and civil society groups saw the bill’s passage as a dangerous weakening of the hard-fought freedoms South Africans gained after the fall of the apartheid government.
During legislative debate, opposition Democratic Alliance parliamentary leader Lindiwe Mazibuko said, If passed, this bill will unstitch the very fabric of our constitution. It will criminalize the freedoms that so many of our people fought for
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
It’s no surprise bees have extraordinary noses, since they can detect pollen from a mile away.
Believe it or not, in some airports they are even being used to sniff out explosives and drugs, and as some Christchurch scientists are discovering soon honey bees might be able to add diagnosing tuberculosis to their CVs.
Hand picked honey bees have no idea they could revolutionise the way Tuberculosis is diagnosed. Believe it or not, humans with the lethal infectious disease have sweet floral smelling breath. People can’t smell it, but bees can — via redwolf.newsvine.com
There are on average 3.74 degrees of separation between any one Facebook user and another, a study suggests.
The number of degrees represents the number of people in a friendship chain, excluding the people at either end.
Or, as the authors put it: When considering another person in the world, a friend of your friend knows a friend of their friend.
The study was carried out in May and involved all of the social network’s active members.
Facebook defines a user as active if they have logged on at least once over the past 28 days
The Little Owl, named Molla, which means spring in Italian, is a guest at i falconieri delle Orobie
, a medieval falconry event in the northern Italian municipality of Biassono, near Milan — via Mail Online
Untitled, originally uploaded by Joel Brochu.
Joel Brochu is taking hundreds and thousands to a whole new level in this portrait of a pup getting a bath. The piece includes 221,184 hundreds and thousands that are painstakingly placed using jewellers tweezers. Only six colours of sprinkles were used in the picture, giving your brain a colour blending treat when viewed from a distance — via CRAFT
Elizabeth of Oh, Fransson! wins the award for Aunt of The Year. She’s in the progress of making a spectacular Space Invaders quilt for her nephew, and I’m more than a little envious of the little dude. She’s created several of the invaders
blocks and is sharing her progress over on her blog — via CRAFT
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