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Cloaking Devices Proven to be Theoretically Possible
Robot Cameras – Development of the “Surgical Bug”
This week the New Scientist reported that pill-sized, robot cameras that will crawl through our bodies in order to give surgeons an inside view of areas of concern are soon to enter human trials. Though cameras that can be swallowed to relay internal pictures from within a patient’s body already [...]
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Curious Fact of the Day- Human Saliva
Did you know that the human body produces roughly 10,000 gallons of saliva in an average lifetime and our saliva has a boiling point three times greater than that of regular water?
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Apple to Pay £52m to Rival Creative
Apple, whose iPod is still considered to the MP3 of choice by many, in a shock announcement yesterday revealed that it is to pay Singapore’s Creative Technology £52m in order to settle a dispute between the companies that could otherwise have escalated into a protracted and extremely costly legal battle. [...]
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Virgin Launches On-line Campaign to "get Laid"
Forget about online dating, stand-up comedienne Sarha DiMuro, aged 29, has decided to cut to the chase with an online campaign that she hopes will culminate with her loosing her virginity before her thirtieth birthday. In an interview with New York’s Jane Magazine, whose web site is currently accepting nominations, [...]
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10 Ways to Score Points with Your Boss
Following years of in-depth field research, I thought that I would share the following pointers as to how you can work to develop your career and ensure that you get noticed by the powers that be in your company. These pointers are by no means foolproof but, with a little [...]
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Tom's Last Cigar.
It is interesting to note that, following a complaint from a viewer to British media regulator Ofcom, Turner Broadcasting is presently sorting through over 1,500 Hanna-Barbera cartoons such as Tom and Jerry, Scooby-Doo and the Flintstones with view to removing all scenes that depict their characters smoking on the basis [...]
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