The German brand LACO (aka Lacher & Co.) has recently introduced its new Laco Squad 1000 meter automatic diving watc — via World Watch Review
A new fire station went up at the intersection of Churchilllaan and Beatrixlaan in Rijswijk. Designed to provide around-the-clock accommodation, the station features a lounge, bedrooms and a gym. The design can be seen as a single roof above the heads of the city’s fire brigade. Four rafters
towering above the roof stand at right angles to the interior network of corridors. Fitted with strips of glass, these elements create beautiful light streets
inside and out — via ArchDaily
Sydney researchers are getting ready to conduct human trials next year of a smart chip, which, when implanted in the spinal cord, can measure and stop pain signals from travelling to the brain — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The firm Roche-Dinkeloo and Associates is known for producing some of the most significant and influential civic and corporate architecture of contemporary times. The two architects were very successful in recognizing new social conditions within their postindustrial society, paying specific attention to the individual and their changing relationship with public space.
The Knights of Columbus Building in New Haven, Connecticut, is the second tallest building in the skyline although it is only 23 stories. Its modern construction and design were revolutionary at the time, and continue to be appreciated today — via ArchDaily
Researchers have successfully transferred spin information from an electron to a more robust atomic nucleus, accessing the information 2,000 times in 100 seconds before it decayed.
It was believed to be the first demonstration of electrically readable nuclear spin memory, and could pave the way for spin-based electronic devices – or spintronics
– of the future — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A robotic octopus arm is being built for deep-sea exploration, but the first prototype testing is throwing up unforeseen challenges for such soft-bodied robots
, Italian robotocists have said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
More than 2,000 people are signing up to the organ donor register each week in Scotland.
The number of people on the NHS register rose by almost 7% in 2010, with 113,517 people joining since December 2009 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The whistle-blowing Web site WikiLeaks has not been convicted of a crime. The Justice Department has not even pressed charges over its disclosure of confidential State Department communications. Nonetheless, the financial industry is trying to shut it down — via redwolf.newsvine.com
US sanctions tend to be riddled with exceptions that are neither humanitarian nor democracy-related, a former US sanctions official has said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Biotechnology multinational Monsanto says it will give legal support to a grower of Genetically Modified canola if his neighbour takes legal action over contamination of his organic crops — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A new study has found that changes in a blood protein could be linked to the development of Alzheimer’s disease — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Dresden Dolls singer (and Neil Gaiman inamorata) Amanda Palmer has released a cheeky low-budget reinterpretation of the 1980s cult hit Labyrinth. Palmer plays Jennifer Connelly, sock puppets replace Muppets, and Gaiman assumes David Bowie’s role as Jareth, the Goblin King — via YouTube
Government plans to block pornography at source
are unlikely to prove effective, say ISPs — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A group of British schoolchildren may be the youngest scientists ever to have their work published in a peer-reviewed journal. In a new paper in Biology Letters, 25 8- to 10-year-old children from Blackawton Primary School report that buff-tailed bumblebees can learn to recognize nourishing flowers based on colors and patterns — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The music industry is changing rapidly. On the one hand there are tens of thousands of artists who use the Internet as a distribution channel and share their music online for free, but on the other side of the spectrum Big Music and Apple are tightening the bolts. We discuss the upside of the Internet and the evil ways
of the corporate interests with Benn Jordan, one of the first musicians to embrace BitTorrent and turn free music into a business — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The bankers’ trade association has written to Cambridge University [PDF] asking for the MPhil thesis [PDF] of one of our research students, Omar Choudary, to be taken offline. They complain it contains too much detail of our No-PIN attack on Chip-and-PIN and thus breaches the boundary of responsible disclosure
; they also complain about Omar’s post on the subject to this blog — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The maker of the Power Balance bracelet worn by many athletes has been forced to admit misleading advertising and to refund customers in Australia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Police are seeking help in recovering nearly half a dozen pieces of art by Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol stolen from a New York City apartment by burglars who who broke through a wall — via redwolf.newsvine.com
I had just finished reading some HP Lovecraft, so his flavor of awesome was still fresh in my mind. Usually when thinking about making these I go through lots of failed ideas before connecting something random to something else that could relate in shape or texture. I landed pretty quickly on Santa’s beard being similar to Cthulhu’s tentacle mouth. After that, I just needed classic scene to befoul, like a child in Santa’s lap — via Scott Brundage
Leawood, Kansas, is a typical mid-ring suburb characterized by modest, well-built homes, a leafy hardwood tree canopy and good public schools that make it an attractive location for young families. Current trends (economic downturn notwithstanding) lean towards tearing down existing homes (arguably historical, with most homes in this part of Leawood having been built in the early 1940’s) and maximizing new designs to allowable build lines and volumes — via ArchDaily
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