Dean Kamen - Inventor: SlingShot - A $2,000 machine that produces 1000 litres of clean water per day from any dirty water. Usesless power than a hair-dryer.
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No wonder our waistlines are getting wider! The average restaurant meal today is more than four times larger than it was in the 1950s.
A shocking new graphic from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention titled “The New (Ab)Normal” shows just how drastically portion sizes in fast food restaurants have been supersized in the last 60 years.
The size of the average burger has tripled, going from just 3.9 ounces in the 1950s to a typical 12 ounces now, according to the CDC.
Burgers are not the only foods to have increased in size, with fries and soft drinks also growing by leaps and bounds.
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All the Water on Planet Earth
Illustration Credit & Copyright: Jack Cook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Howard Perlman, USGS
Explanation: How much of planet Earth is made of water? Very little, actually. Although oceans of water cover about 70 percent of Earth’s surface, these oceans are shallow compared to the Earth’s radius. The above illustration shows what would happen is all of the water on or near the surface of the Earth were bunched up into a ball. The radius of this ball would be only about 700 kilometers, less than half the radius of the Earth’s Moon
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Bloodnote is a simple app where you can track your blood pressure and control your health. Created by Peter Bajtala and Matt Ludzen, Bloodnote’s wonderfully minimal design turns a mundane task into something much easier on the eyes. (via Checking Your Blood Pressure Just Got Really Sexy)
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Futurist Foresight: Scientists turn skin cells into neural precursors, bypassing stem-cell stage
via KurzweilAI on 2/1/12Neural precursor cells (upper left) differentiate into oligodendrocytes, astrocytes, and neurons (credit: Ernesto Lujana et al./PNAS)
Mouse skin cells can be …
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Picky eaters could join ranks of mentally ill
Could picky eaters actually be suffering from a mental illness? That’s the prospect some are raising over a proposed addition to psychiatry’s official manual of mental illness.
“Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder,” or ARFID, is being recommended as a new eating disorder for the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM-5, an influential book used daily by doctors worldwide.
ARFID is being defined as an “eating or feeding disturbance” that includes avoiding foods of a particular taste, texture or colour.
The diagnosis is designed to capture children — as well as adults — with such peculiar and profound food preferences it’s causing significant weight loss or serious nutritional deficiencies.
But some observers worry the new disorder would inevitably add large numbers of people to the “swelling ranks” of the mentally ill.
Futurist Foresight: Could lab-grown meat soon be the solution to the world’s food crisis?
via KurzweilAI on 1/25/12Scientists are producing small quantities of “cultured meat” in research laboratories. Mark Post of Maastricht University, one of the pioneers in the field, claims he will be able to…
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