Wall Street Journal (blog): The ability to speak well is not a talent most people have. We all have talking ticks. But in the age of mobile phones the habit that grates on others’ nerves the most is perhaps not knowing when to stop talking. Luckily, two Japanese researchers have come up with a persuasive […]
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Springwise: For children, being diagnosed with an illness can be daunting, especially if they’ve never heard of the disease, which is why innovations such as the Medikidz comics may come in handy. However, adults can be left equally in the dark if they don’t fully understand a medical procedure or can’t remember everything the doctor
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Austin American-Statesman: Necessity is the mother of invention, right? For these Austin moms, their own necessities inspired inventions: one a weighted blanket to help people with sensory integration disorders sleep; the other a foldable mat for families on the go. We talked with them about how they came up with their ideas, who’s buying their
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Tbo.com: Helen Hrywnak and hundreds of other apartment dwellers in Hillsborough County have found an easy way to recycle their aluminum cans and donate to charity, thanks to an initiative started by a Tampa man who noticed a void. Like many other locals living in apartments, Hrywnak and her neighbors at Grand Oaks Apartments in
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Central Kentucky News: Raising goats and making soap have become second nature for Joe Bremer. The 14-year-old Chicagoan-turned Danville resident launched his own soap-making business in 2010. Joe’s Bars and Suds began after many visits to a soap store in Tarpon Springs, Fla., which had “10 by 10 walls†full of soap. Bremer says they
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1690 – Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time. 1906 – In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat
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The Huffington Post: Despite how silly it sounds, water-fueled vehicles do exist. The most famous is Stan Meyer’s dune buggy, which achieved 100 miles per gallon and might have become more commonplace had Meyer not succumbed to a suspicious brain aneurysm at 57. Insiders have loudly claimed that Meyer was poisoned after he refused to
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