According to the National Watermelon Promotion Board, as of 2010, only sixteen percent of grocery stores still sell watermelons with seeds. That’s a forty-two percent decline from 2003. What’s more is their alarming prediction. The board states that within a generation, children won’t even know watermelons are meant to come studded with shiny black seeds, […]
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The Verge: Researchers at Zhejiang Univeristy’s CCNT lab have modified an AR.Drone quadracopter, allowing the craft to be controlled by an Emotiv EEG headset. New Scientist reports that the drone, dubbed Flying Buddy 2, translates thoughts — or more specifically, brain waves — into motion. Think “push” or “clench,” and the craft will rise or
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On this day in 1885 NarcÃs Monturiol i Estarriol, Catalan intellectual, artist and engineer, inventor of the first combustion engine-driven submarine, which was propelled by an early form of air-independent propulsion was born in 1819. The Ictineo II made her maiden voyage under human power on 20 May 1865, submerging to 30 metres (98 ft).
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A generation ago, only a select few could send messages “online.” (And those messages consisted primarily of light green text on a black screen.) Today, a short forty years later, no longer do people need to wait for the morning paper, or for the late night news to find out what is happening in the
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