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Student Designs Jewelry That Uses Veins As A Power Source

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We’ve all been there: running out of power on your cell-phone with no prospect of a charger in the near future. It’s one of the most frightening possible scenarios for a lot of people these days. Naomi Kizhner, an Israeli graduate student, may have solved that problem. Naomi is designing jewelry that could theoretically harness your body’s energy to generate …

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Activist Pulls Over Cop Driving In Unmarked Car

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Here’s a guy who has a little extra in the guts department. Gavin Seim, who describes himself as a constitutional activist, recently filmed himself flagging over a police officer who was driving an unmarked car in Grant County, Wash. The cop seems partly amused, partly in disbelief as Seim asks him for identification. “This is my ID right here,” the …

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Obese Crash Test Dummies Are Saving Our Lives

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Car safety testing has come a long way since the days of dropping cadavers down unused elevator shafts in the 1930s. That we enjoy greater peace of mind on the road — with fatal accidents in the US at historic lows — is largely due to the evolution of crash test dummies. Vehicle manufacturers must prove their safety with dummies …

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The Case For Drinking As Much Coffee As You Like

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So aside from caffeine, just what are you getting in a cup, or two, or six? Thousands of mostly understudied chemicals that contribute to flavor and aroma, including plant phenols, chlorogenic acids, and quinides, all of which function as antioxidants. Diterpenoids in unfiltered coffee may raise good cholesterol and lower bad cholesterol. And, okay, there’s also ash which, to be …

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Can This New Hoverboard Go The Distance?

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Hoverboards, according to Back to The Future, are just a year away, and one company claims they can deliver in the nick of time. However, it remains to be seen if this promise has much more substance than the various hoaxes that have come out since the film. Producing a hoverboard that would work over all (solid) surfaces and fly …

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The Election Outcome May Be A GOP Takeover, but South Dakota Is A Wildcard

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The polling in most key Senate races has been consistent for a couple weeks now. GOP candidates appear to have taken small leads in crucial purple states like Iowa and Colorado, while their advantages against red state Democratic incumbents in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Alaska. In Kansas, beleaguered GOP incumbent Pat Roberts seems to have regained some ground against independent Greg …